Our labs

Science undergraduate labs

Science has three undergraduate NEXUS labs, containing 54 PCs, located throughout the Faculty of Science. The following table shows the locations of the Science Nexus labs & printers. To find out more about room availability and installed software, navigate to an individual lab information page below, or go to the Software List.

Name

Location

Number of Nexus PCs
Friesen Lab

C2 160

35
Physlab

PHY 342

19

Science Computing NEXUS accounts

Science Computing provides each student with a Nexus account. The Nexus account includes a roaming profile, which:

  • Saves all of your settings so that each Nexus workstation presents a customized environment which contains settings unique to your account

  • Provides 1GB of disk space to automatically save the following settings

    • Desktop Settings

    • Shortcuts

    • Internet Favourites

    • Internet and Document Histories