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Sage Hall
Sage Hall was first occupied by the science departments at the beginning of the second semester of 1967. The building housed the Departments of Biology, Chemistry, and Physics. Centrally located on the DeLand campus, Sage Hall contains very high-tech equipment for faculty members and students to use to conduct research. The original cost of the building was $1.5 million dollars. Sage Hall is the first unit of what was planned as a center to house research facilities as well as classrooms and laboratories in it's 66,000 square feet of area . Sage Hall houses the newest equipment for the study of the sciences.
Sage Hall was originally named Sage Science Center, in memory of Henry J. Sage and his son Jeffrey Carver Sage who died when he was a child, and is a tribute to the Sage family. Mrs. Sage of St. Petersburg, made possible a greater portion of the finances for the center. Dedicated on November 17, 1967, Mrs. Henry J. Sage was in attendance at the ceremony.
Look closer at the face of science at Stetson
Every corner of the new Science Center will foster inward reflection and outward vision, from a series of alcoves larege enough for group study to the Grand Attrium - which will open to the center of campus and to the Florida sky. Exhibition spaces throughout will put undergraduate research projects on display. The small and secluded faculty laboratories of the current Sage Hall will open onto larger, more flexible learning spaces for observation, for research, for collaboration. A new physiology lab will serve the increased needs of a growing Integrative Health Science Program. Research in the neurosciences will bring together biologist, chemists, psychologist from across the campus in one of the most interdisciplinary corners in the new facility. A large computer laboratory will make modeling software available to students in biology, environmental science, and geography - creating another opportunity for collaborative study.
The internal structure of the new Science Center will allow physicists and chemists the stability they need for very precise measurement and will put much of the advanced instrumentation in their discipline on display. Integrative Health Science will have lab facilities with access to state-of-the-art biochemistry instrumentation. Geography/environmental Science will have an important presence in the building in new laboratories and in a shared computer space with biology. An ecology research lab will become a new home to Stetson's colonies of snakes, frogs, and salamanders, while an aquatic biology lab indoors and an adjacent native plant landscape will encourage undergraduates to think across disciplinary boundaries about minimizing human impact on the environment.
Two large, tiered classrooms, one overlooking the Grand Atrium, will serve as lecture rooms for the entire university community. A coffee kiosk and a satelilite exhibt for theGillespie Museum ofo Minerals inside the building will add the appeal of the Grand Atrium. An outdoor classroom and a wide plaza will connect the new building to the rest of the campus.
The Science Center will also connect to the natural world. A state-of-the-art, 1150-square-foot greenhouse, and outdoor classroom, and a native plant garden will attest to Stetson's commitment to environmental responsibility. A serious understanding of the natural world requires our getting out in it.
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