What is today the Eleonore Graves Tripp Modern Languages Laboratory at the University of Miami was established in the 1950s.  In the late 1980’s, thanks to the generosity of Mr. Norman Tripp, the lab was radically upgraded and named the Eleonore Graves Tripp Foreign Languages Laboratory.  Since then, the lab has been continuously updated and has kept abreast of the newest language learning technologies.

In 2007, following the name change from the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures to the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, the lab accordingly changed its name to the Eleonore Graves Tripp Modern Languages Laboratory.

The Eleonore Graves Tripp Modern Languages Laboratory is located within the Merrick Building on UM's Coral Gables Campus. Currently, the lab houses twenty Windows XP workstations networked to a Windows 2000 server. The Eleonore Graves Tripp Modern Languages Lab provides students with language-based computer software that contains both interactive audio and video formats, as well as direct access to UM's modern languages digitized audio and video library. Each computer workstation is also interfaced with a DVD-RW drive and headphones with microphones for voice recording.
In addition, most services of the lab can be remotely accessed from Residential College rooms and labs, and through the Internet.