Facilities

Harold Alfond
Center for Health Sciences

The Harold Alfond Center for Health Sciences, which opened in 1996, provides a significant focus for the University. Located at the center of campus, this three-story building houses numerous laboratories and lecture halls. It is a join-use building between the College of Osteopathic Medicine and the College of Arts and Sciences. Thehuman gross anatomy lab - used by medical, health professions and athletic training students - is a modern facility for cadaveric and fresh tissue study.

Clinical Performance Center

The Clinical Performance Center (CPC) is an interactive clinical skills education, testing and evaluation facility, located in the Sanford F. Petts Center on the University Campus.

The center has a well-established Standardized Patient Program and a new Patient Simulator Program.

The CPC is designed and furnished in the model of an outpatient health center, with eight regular "exam rooms" and two additional dual-purpose examination and clinical simulation rooms. The exam rooms have ceiling cameras and microphones that can funnel audiovisual information about a student-standarized patient encounter to a large centralized monitoring and recording room for interactive evaluation purposes. The standardized patients are trained to role play clinical case scenarios and to provide constructive feedback to students after their encounters.

The robotic patient simulators also provide learning opportunities in clinical scenarios that are frequently of a more critical or emergency nature. More information.

Pickus Center for Biomedical Research 

The Pickus Center for Biomedical Research, with its Cécile Mogane Research Laboratories, is a state-of-the-art biomedical research building that will house research teams of UNE faculty and student researchers.  The 22,000 sq. ft. structure enables students to engage in important research as part of their curriculum, build upon the strong base of research that is already occurring at the College of Osteopathic Medicine, and create opportunities for collaborative research.  The Center includes six laboratories, 12 faculty offices, two conference rooms, a lab tech office suite, and space for a future vivarium.

Stella Maris Hall
Stella Maris Hall houses UNECOM's Office of the Deans, faculty and administrative offices and a number of faculty research laboratories.

Student Health Care/University Health Care

The Student Health Care at the Sanford F. Petts Health Center provides health care services to the University's students. More information.

University of New England Libraries
The Jack S. Ketchum Library on the University Campus in Biddeford and the Josephine S. Abplanalp ’45 Library on the Westbrook College Campus in Portland provide all UNE students, faculty and staff with these services:

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	•	Web-access databases
	•	e-books, e-journals, e-newspapers, e-forms
	•	Public access computers
	•	Data jacks and wireless access for individual laptops
	•	Remote access to databases
	•	Over 150,000 volumes
	•	Over 7000 print and electronic full text journal titles
	•	Videos, compact discs, CD-ROMs, and audio cassettes
	•	Reference, research, and literature search assistance
	•	Individual and course-related library research instruction
	•	Circulation and reserves
	•	Interlibrary loan and intercampus loan
	•	Maine InfoNet and WorldCat
	•	Photocopiers and microfilm reader/printers
	•	Group and individual study space

Wireless network access is available throughout the libraries and all across campus. Medical students are welcome to utilize either library, and do. The UNE Libraries databases, electronic full-text journals, and electronic full-text medical books are accessible from on-campus and from off-campus, which is of particular benefit to students who are on clinical rotations.

The UNE Libraries are institutional members of the following local, state and national organizations: Greater Portland Alliance of Colleges and Universities, Health Science Libraries & Information Consortium (HSLIC), National Network of Libraries of Medicine/New England Region (NNLM/NER), New England Library Information Network (NELINET), Southern Maine Library District (SMLD), American Library Association (ALA), Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), EDUCAUSE, the Association for managing and using information sources in higher education, Medical Library Association (MLA), and North Atlantic Health Science Libraries (NAHSL).

Information Technology Services
UNE's Computer Services Department serves as the University's information technology leader. It provides resources for both academic and administrative computing, including technical, instructional, and informational support to students, faculty, and staff.

Computer Services monitors computer industry developments and the needs of the UNE community in order to create an effective and exciting environment for teaching, learning, and scholarship. The University computer network ranges through classrooms, offices, and computer labs on the University Campus in Biddeford and is extended to encompass the Westbrook College Campus as well.

At the same time, Information Technology Services is implementing a web-based integrated University-wide information system to handle all administrative functions (registration, financial aid, grades, advising, etc.).

Each campus has a central computing area dedicated to use by students in all disciplines, seven days a week. On the University Campus, Decary Hall houses a state-of-the-art classroom and labs of Windows-based PCs and Macintosh computers; on the Westbrook College Campus, a Windows-based classroom is in Proctor Hall with Windows-based labs located in Blewett Hall and the library. In lab settings, a student-staff provides assistance to users of educational, scientific, graphics, business, and Internet software. Laser printing is available in each computer area; there is no per-page charge. UNE is committed to the goal of preparing its students for the computing and communications challenges of the new century.

Media Services
UNE’s Media Services Department staff advise and assist UNE faculty, students, and staff in the development and presentation of media projects. The Department supports both linear and digital editing systems. The University has video conferencing units to communicate between campuses as well as with other schools and hospitals with such equipment. Department facilities include: live studio production; video, audio, photo, and slide production; as well as layout and graphics.

Campus Center
The Campus Center serves both as a fitness facility and a student union with extensive hours. The fitness center itself houses weight machines and free weights and cariovascular equipment including stair steppers, elipical machines, exercise bikes, rowing machines and Nordic tracks. Other fitness facilities inlcude a 6-lane, 25-yard swimming pool; hydro-spa; saunas; indoor track; racquetball court, and 12,000 square feet of gymnasium space. A number of health and fitness programs are offered, as well as an extensive campus-wide intramurals program for both medical and undergraduate students. The Campus Bookstore, The Hang snack bar and multipurpose rooms and art gallery space are located in the Campus Center as well. Outdoor facilities offer jogging and cross country trails, and outdoor volleyball and basketball courts. More information. More information.

The Community
Biddeford is a small city with a population of about 23,000, and Saco (17,000) sits across the river. Although originally settled a few hundred years ago, the cities really developed as major textile center in the 1800s; most of the orignial textile mills have since been converted to residential, professional, commercial and light industrial use. The section of town where the University is located about four miles from the two downtowns were the Saco River meets the ocean in an area known as Hills Beach. This seaside area is commercially undeveloped and is primarily a summer cottage and residential area. Neighboring towns include Old Orchard Beach, Arundel, Kennebunk, Kennebunkport, and Wells.

Portland, the largest city in Maine, is a 25-minute drive north from Biddeford. This growing metro area is justifiably proud of its fine symphony orchestra, active theater groups, concert halls and other live music venues, museums and many other arts organizations. There is an abundance of one-of-a-kind restaurants - more per capita than almost any city in the country - and countless shops in the downtown area. Portland is home to two minor-league sports teams: the Portland Seadogs are affiliated with the Boston Red Sox and the Portland Pirates play hockey at the Cumberland County Civic Center.

For individual athletic pursuits, there are opportunities in southern Maine for canoe and kayaking, mountain and road biking, hiking and camping, Nordic and alpine skiing, snowshoeing, bird watching, and fishing and hunting. Somtimes just spending time on the beaches is enough to please visitors and residents alike. The campus is only an hour's drive from the mountains and minutes from numerous rivers.

Located off exit 32 of the Maine Turnpike (Route I-95), Biddeford is within easy reach of most major Eastern cities. Portsmouth, New Hampshire, a 40-minute drive from campus, affords the curious an opportunity for exposure to a seaport steeped in North American history. In addition, the historical and cultural riches of Boston are a 90-minute drive from the campus.