Science Facilities of the Elton B. Stephens Science Facitlity

The Science Facilities of the
The Elton B. Stephens Science Center
Birmingham-Southern College

The Elton B. Stephens Science Center, which is scheduled to open in February 2002, will house the disciplines of Biology, Chemistry, Physics, and Neuroscience. At the heart of the building will be a three story atrium providing a space for social and intellectual interdisciplinary interactions and putting science on display.

The Elton B. Stephens Science Center will anchor a new academic quadrangle, with the Stockham Building, the current Science Complex, which will be renovated to a Humanities Center, and Munger Hall. Stockham and Munger are on the National Historic Registry.

The first floor houses introductory teaching laboratories and support rooms for biology and environmental science; the museum/herbarium; introductory, advanced, and research laboratories and support rooms for physics; three lecture halls; and offices for physics faculty and the Division of Science and Mathematics.

The second floor houses advanced and research laboratories, support rooms, and offices for biology, a classroom and a computer room.

The third floor houses introductory, advanced, and research laboratories, support rooms, and offices for chemistry, classrooms, a study room, a seminar room, and a conference room.

The ground floor houses teaching and research laboratories, offices, and support spaces for psychology, as well as an animal facility, dark room, and laser laboratory.