Newhouse School of Communications
Facilities:
The Newhouse School is one of the world's most complete centers for the study of mass communications. Fully equipped with computer facilities, photography laboratories, and television and audio studios and equipment, the school is now an all-digital environment. In order to keep pace with the rapidly changing communications industry, the School commits more than $300,000 each year to equipment upgrades. The goal is to provide students the tools to master the skills of the industry and achieve professional results.
Among the specialized facilities are:
- The Doescher Advertising and Public Relations lab provides a professional agency atmosphere for students to plan campaigns and make presentations.
- Photography facilities include darkrooms and printing areas for both black-and-white and color and a large professionally-equipped studio. Digital photography equipment is available, and many students are bypassing the traditional enlarger rooms to use the negative scanners and photography software available in the computer labs.
- Over two dozen video and audio editing booths comprise a suite for use by students enrolled in the various electronic media courses. The majority of the suites are equipped with digital editing systems.
- Three studios available for music recording and sound production. The largest studio is a floating music studio with 24-track mixing control.
- Two professionally-equipped television studios with a master control room. The larger studio, Studio A, is equipped with a news set where broadcast journalism students produce their daily newscasts in this studio. Studio B is used primarily by the television production classes.
- Newspaper, Magazine and Graphics classes are taught in one of the school's six Macintosh labs, which house approximately 120 work stations. All of the machines have word processing and email capabilities. There are three high end graphics labs that feature PhotoShop, QuarkXpress, and Freehand. An advanced lab has MacroMedia director as well as web design packages. All computers feature Netscape and Internet Explorer web browsers and Lexis-Nexis for research.
