New Graduate Study Lounge Opens at Wimberly Library
Graduate 啵啵直播秀 enrolled at Florida Atlantic University, as well as 啵啵直播秀 within the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, now have an exclusive lounge in the Wimberly Library.
From left, Jessica Eaton, Trayven Call, Justin Chavez, Garrett Goode, Dakota Merchant and Savannah Davis check out the recently-opened Graduate Study Lounge on the west side of the second floor of FAU鈥檚 Wimberly Library.
Graduate 啵啵直播秀 enrolled at Florida Atlantic University, as well as 啵啵直播秀 within the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, now have an exclusive lounge in the Wimberly Library to study, relax or just hang out, thanks to the generosity of the University Club of the FAU Foundation.
The Graduate Study Lounge, repurposed from underutilized office and storage space, is tucked away on the west end of the second floor with access controlled by a student鈥檚 Owl Card. The lounge opens to a multi-purpose room that is set up with four side-by-side computer stations and collaboration space with a rolling conference table and matching chairs.
Three smaller rooms feature cubicles with partitions for privacy and compartments for storage. A larger sitting room has comfortable sofas and wide white tables with two wall-to-wall windows in the lounge offer natural light and a view of a palm tree-lined walkway of the College of Business and the Computer Lab. FAU colors on the walls and a sign with FAU鈥檚 mascot Owlsley adds to the ambience. Two PCs and two MACs are installed in the lounge, along with several electrical outlets and data ports, allowing 啵啵直播秀 to connect to the Libraries鈥 electronic resources as well as to FAU鈥檚 suite of software tools.
鈥淲hen University Club members indicated their desire to contribute to the Libraries, we presented them with the idea for a Graduate Study Lounge,鈥 said Carol Hixson, dean of University Libraries at FAU. 鈥淭his project is the ideal expression of the University Club鈥檚 commitment to the 啵啵直播秀 of FAU and enabled the Libraries to address a critical need.鈥
News of the exclusive study lounge is spreading quickly at FAU, where 6,000 American and international 啵啵直播秀 come for graduate studies, and more than 100 graduate degree and graduate certificate programs are offered. A Graduate Student Life Task Force in 2015 recommended that FAU establish spaces on campus for graduate 啵啵直播秀, who have long expressed a need for quiet study space. There has been a steady flow of graduate 啵啵直播秀 using the lounge since it opened in August.
鈥淲e are pleased and appreciative that Dean Carol Hixson spearheaded the opening of the Graduate Student Lounge in the Wimberly Library,鈥 said Deborah L. Floyd, Ed.D., dean of the Graduate College at FAU. 鈥淥n behalf of our graduate 啵啵直播秀, thank you.鈥
Amanda Chiplock, a senior medical librarian at FAU, said the lounge is conducive for student success among medical 啵啵直播秀 and scholars.
鈥淲ith a complex, integrated curriculum and board exams scheduled throughout their medical school career, medical 啵啵直播秀 need a quiet study space to allow them to focus in a way that they may not have needed to during previous schooling,鈥 said Chiplock. 鈥淭he Graduate Study Lounge offers just the place for intense study in a relaxed, comfortable environment.鈥
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