FAS Information Technology

FAS Information Technology provides public labs for all College, GSAS students, Extension/Summer students, and FAS faculty and staff in the Science Center's computing facilities. All Science Center labs are open 24 hours per day, 7 days per week.

The main facility in the building is the Science Center Computer Lab (SCL), room B-14. This lab contains:

• 39 Windows workstations running XP Pro
• 25 Apple iMac5,1 workstations running OSX (ver. 10.4.11 – Tiger)
• 32 Ubuntu Linux workstations
• 5 seats for personal laptop use
• One color and five black-and-white laser printers

Additional computer classrooms listed below are located in the Science Center basement and 2nd floor (as well as a multi-media lab); these are open 24 hours a day, seven days and may be used for general computing use whenever classes are not in session.

• Room B-09: A 30-seat Windows PC lab in the basement of the Science Center (formerly Science Center B-11c)
• Room 229: A 20-seat Macintosh lab on the second floor
• Room 226: A 10-seat PC classroom

These facilities function as both general-access labs and instructional classrooms.

Each classroom has an instructor's station equipped with a computer, overhead projector (for displaying monitor output), document projector, and port for connecting a personal laptop computer. There are black and white printers in every lab.

Printing

FAS Information Technology offers black-and-white and color laser printing services in the Science Center and House computer labs for use by FAS account holders. These facilities are open 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

These printers can be accessed directly from the Windows, Macintosh and Linux workstations in our Science Center and House computer labs. In addition, students may configure their personal computers to print directly to FAS Information Technology laser printers.

Black-and-white laser printing costs $0.05 per page; color laser printing costs $0.15 per page.

In order to print, users will first need to set up a printing budget. Printing budgets are linked to FAS accounts and remains active between terms as long as the account is active.

All FAS accountholders may pay via Crimson Cash at the Service Desk, Science Center B-13. Additionally, print system users can purchase additional printer budget with a credit card through the online printing service interface at www.fas.harvard.edu/printing/

Harvard College undergraduate and GSAS students may also pay via term-bill at the link above.

Laser printing via Crimson Cash is also available in the Harvard College libraries for $0.10/page.

The Division of Continuing Education (DCE) maintains an additional computer lab for the exclusive use of Extension and Summer School students at 53 Church Street. Limited laser printing facilities are available there; visit or contact the 53 Church Street lab for details.