The ATLAS Building
Opened in 2006, the ATLAS Building serves the
campus with innovation in teaching and learning using
educational technology, multidisciplinary curricula,
and research involving information technology. It
draws the CU community and beyond into the
networked information age through its exhibition
and performance facilities and distance learning
capabilities.
Videoconferencing capabilities connect
classrooms to live discussions with people from
around the globe. For example, students in a
Modern U.S. Politics and Diplomacy history
course were able to hold a videoconference
discussion with Gen. Anthony Tata, a senior U.S.
commander in Afghanistan. Students in a
Microcomputers in Economics course held a
videoconference discussion with counterparts in
Komazawa University in Japan, with topics
ranging from U.S.-Japan economic relations to
the effects of recent elections both in the United
States and Japan. (Photo courtesy of Bruce Henderson / ATLAS.)
The master control area in the ATLAS Studios
coordinates digital video activities for an adjacent
production studio and Black Box Theatre. A
1,000-square-foot studio and control room feature
state-of-the-art switchers, audio boards, routers, digital
video, hard-drive playback, and studio cameras with
teleprompters for news and features television shows.
