Welcome to the Creative Reseach Center (CRC)! Housed in the English Department at New Mexico State University, the CRC is a lab that supports innovation in digital research and pedagogy.
The open lab space, located in room 121 of Clara Belle Williams Hall, was designed to be transformable and collaborative - an area where students and faculty can use technology to research, create, share, and communicate. This space can be used to teach classes or give presentations. It can also be used to work on course assignments, develop multi-media projects.
Open Lab Hours for Fall 2024
Drop in, work with a little support, ask questions!
Dr. Banazek (dedicated support for design and digital pedagogy): Tuesday 10:30-11:30
Coordinators: Monday 3-5pm
Tuesday 11:30am-1pm
Wednesday 11am-5pm
Thursday 11:30am-1pm
The lab currently features 9 Mac Studio computers optimized for media production and collaboration (more to come in 2025). This collaboration-centric space also offers two large-screen monitors and a project that can be connected to wirelessly, as well as seven moveable whiteboard-top task tables.
The CRC space also sponsors a podcast studio where members of our community can carry out sound-based creative pursuits including interviews. This space is located between rooms 207 and 203 upstairs in Clara Belle Williams Hall; entry is through 203 and requires a lab staff member with a key to meet you and get you setup.
The space is acoustically dampened; it features a Mac Studio control computer, a soundboard/mixer, and two mics with stands and filters (there is seating at the main desk for three). Adobe Audition, Audacity, Garage Band, and the Apple Voice Memo app are setuo (with launch icons in the desktop dock) to give visitors options from robust to very simple for collecting abd editing audio.
If you found a reservation form using Google, note that it is out of date. Please email Dr. Kerry Banazek (kbanazek@nmsu.edu) to reserve either the Lab or the Podcast Studio.
