The College of Communications has 20 labs in six different buildings on campus. They include numerous facilities available for student use outside of class, or for use as part of class work. Descriptions of each follow, including contact information for using the respective labs.

Carnegie Building
Carnegie Cinema (113 Carnegie Building) is for film series, for all visiting filmmakers that do presentations, for analysis of films in film classes that require a high level of control for sound and quality, and for production classes. Contact: Julie Evak.

The Carnegie Photo Lab (6 Carnegie) consists of 16 Intel iMac computers, running a variety of software in support of two different photojournalism courses as well as a course on convergence journalism. Applications include Adobe CreativeSuite, FinalCut Express, and a variety of audio-video utilities and conversion programs. Access to this lab is controlled, and only students in the above-mentioned courses are permitted to use this facility. Contact: Jeremy Wright.

The Pro Tools Studio (16 Carnegie Building) building is equipped to help film and video students edit, mix and master their sound. The attached sound booth can be used for re-recording dialogue and recording clean sound effects and voiceovers. Contact: Chris Maurer.

The Carnegie Mac Lab (19 Carnegie Building) consists of 21 Intel iMac computers, running a variety of software in support of journalism, advertising and film classes. Applications include Adobe CreativeSuite, Microsoft Office, Quark Express and FinalDraft, a specialized screenwriting word processor. Access to this lab is controlled. Communications students may have 24-hour access outside of scheduled class time. Contact: Jeremy Wright.

The Carnegie Film Lab (21 Carnegie Building) is an unstaffed, 24 hour a day, seven day a week video editing resource for junior and senior level film and video students. There are nine editing stations available with Final Cut Studio software installed and eight of the stations also have AVID Media Composer software. DVD burners are installed in all machines. Students often use portable firewire drives in this lab so they can easily move their projects and media to other editing stations and/or other editing facilities or computer labs. Contact: Chris Maurer.

The Donald W. Davis Advertising Laboratory (121 Carnegie Building) was designed for students majoring in advertising and public relations, and is used exclusively by those students and faculty members. This lab consists of 21 Microsoft Windows XP Pro computers, running a variety of software in support of marketing, advertising, journalism and graduate classes. Contact: Yu-Tai Chung.

The John Curley News Writing Laboratory (206 Carnegie Building) consists of 21 Microsoft Windows XP Pro computers, running a variety of software in support of journalism and graduate classes. Software includes Microsoft Office 2007 and qualitative research software such as SPSS 16 and Amos 16. Contact: Yu-Tai Chung.

101 Innovation Park
The Analog Edit Suite (Suite 213) houses five S-VHS stations. Telecommunications and broadcast journalism students use the room for editing. Each station has two monitors, a mixer, a controller and two decks. These editing bays are used by various production classes to learn the “conventional” way to edit tape. Contact: Karen Mozley-Bryan.

The Centre County Report Newsroom (Suite 213) is used by up to 18 students at a time. There are four PCs, four desktop Macs and one Mac laptop. The PCs have ENPS software, and the Macs have Final Cut Pro. There are four sets of field gear, which include PDX 10, tripods and microphones. There is a multi-purpose printer, and there are also four mini DV/VHS decks for editing. Contact: Thor Wasbotten.

The Equipment Center (Suite 213) houses audio and video equipment for use by students for class assignments. For more details, call (814) 865-6414 or contact Yu-Tai Chung.

The Finestra Digital Editing Lab (Suite 213) is a state-of-the-art facility for video post-production is that serves the needs of telecommunications, broadcast journalism and film-video students. There are 18 Final Cut Studio editing stations available and DVD burners are installed in all machines. All stations have a mini-DV VCR and a video monitor. The lab is generally open and staffed for 70 hours per week and as many as 98 hours a week toward the end of a semester. Contact: Chris Maurer.

The Innovation Park Computer Lab (Suite 213) consists of 21 PPC G-5 PowerMacs. Software applications include Adobe CreativeSuite, Microsoft Office and FinalDraft, a specialized screenwriting word processor. This lab is used primarily by film and broadcast journalism students. Access is controlled, and communications students may have 24-hour access outside of scheduled class time. Contact: Jeremy Wright.

103 Innovation Park
The Digital Audio Laboratory (Suite 205) serves students in radio production courses, sports broadcasting and broadcast journalism courses. The lab is composed of two separate rooms, an editing lab featuring Pro-Tools and a broadcast studio. The lab features 10 workstations tied to the digital broadcast news lab and resources such as digital field recorders, headphones and a music and sound effects library. Contact: Steve Reighard.

The Digital Broadcast News Laboratory (Suite 205) is designed for students in broadcast journalism. The lab includes a newsroom and a broadcast studio with computers, laser printers, field recording equipment and equipment used to record radio newscasts. Contact: Tim Molnar.

The College's television studio (Suite 205) is named for WJAC-TV. It is equipped with latest-in-the-industry digital technology in both the control room and studio. The studio lab provides students with the opportunity to gain both "on-air" and "behind-the-scenes" experience. This lab is set up for recording and broadcasting several productions developed by faculty and students. The lab can be run as a news station, using different sets to produce a standard network news production, including sports and weather segments. It is also used for specific topic presentations, both student and faculty produced, such as Icers Hockey Report, After Hours, Centre Spotlight, and Final Cut, to name a few. Contact: Jim Dugan.

James Building
The Media Effects Lab I (306 James) The Traditional Media Wing provides mainly graduate students and faculty the opportunity to do research involving radio, news, television, film and video game entertainment. Experiments may be conducted through the one-way mirror that separates the experimental room and observation room. The lab is also utilized by a few undergraduate students and graduate students from other departments, such as Communications Arts and Sciences. Contact: Yu-Tai Chung.

The Media Effects Lab II (309 James) The New Media Wing has 18 computers and, like the Traditional Media Wing, also provides graduate students and faculty the opportunity to do research and to conduct experiments. For example, researchers can study implicit vs. explicit reactions in participants by testing their reaction time. Contact: Yu-Tai Chung.

Willard Building
The Gannett Foundation New Media Laboratory (317 Willard Building) provides a site for more sophisticated training and opportunities for the College's upper-division students. This lab consists of 19 PPC iMac computers, running a variety of software in support of journalism, layout and design. Applications include Adobe CreativeSuite, Microsoft Office and Quark Express. This lab, used almost exclusively by the journalism department, is designed to encourage collaborative learning. Access is limited to scheduled class time. Students have access to Room 19 Carnegie Building Mac Lab to work on assigned projects. Contact: Jeremy Wright.

Shooting space (316 Willard) is available for photography and film students. There is no official equipment. Contact: Karen Mozley-Bryan.

Medlar Field at Lubrano Park
The John Curley Center for Sports Journalism has a dedicated classroom/seminar room in the University’s baseball stadium. It is large enough for a skills class with about 15 students. Students have the ability to learn to write stories about sports events without being in the press box (adjacent to the room). Students who are in sports broadcasting can have a briefing in the classroom session and then go to their respective reporting positions: reporter in the press box or down on the sidelines. The room includes several work stations, a video screen and VCR. Also, the ballpark has a broadcast position specifically for ComRadio, the Web-based radio station housed in the College.