Facilities
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Beach Science Center
Common
Areas
Physics Department
 Beech
Science Center
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The Department of Physics is located in a $4.2
million dollar facility, the Beech Science
Center and Mabee Laboratory Complex. This
space is shared with
the departments of
 Chemistry,
Biology, and Mathematics. The building includes a multimedia lecture hall,
seminar room, display
areas, and 13,000 square feet of
laboratory space
including two environmental control
chambers. All offices and teaching
areas have fiber optic and wireless access to the
internet.
Common Areas
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Main Lobby - Located on the
first floor, these five aquaria form the centerpiece for the Beech
Science Center. Each tank represents a different continent, including a
tank devoted to the fish of Kansas. A word to the wise, don't dangle
your fingers in the tank. Kansas sunfish can be fairly ferocious. |
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Deets Lobby - Housed on the
second floor, this area is heavily used by students for both educational
and social functions. Come by some evening before a Cell Biology exam
and you will find students munching pizza and studying their brains
out. If you can explain the details of the Krebs' Cycle, you may just
score a slice of pepperoni for yourself. |
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Oncley Library - A quiet study
area for students and faculty. This room contains computers and
printers for student use as well as abundant information on graduate
schools, summer internships, and careers in science. Also housed within
this room are current issues of science journals carried by Southwestern
College's library or the private libraries of our faculty. Just in case
you were wondering, the chairs are soft enough for a quick nap between
classes. |
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McNeish Lecture Hall - Our
largest classroom. This facility includes state-of-the-art multimedia
presentation technology that allows faculty and students to
electronically display overheads, photos, videos, computer software, and
web sites. |
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Smith Science Education Classroom
- A smaller classroom that allows instructors to utilize traditional
lectures and discussion groups. This room also contains one of several
computing facilities in the Beech Science Center. |
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Overstreet Instrument Room -
The fanciest "toys" of the Science Division are located in this room,
including a PCR thermocycler, respirometer, scintillation detector,
osomometer, electronic physiograph, refrigerated centrifuge, and IR, UV,
and NMR spectrophotometers. Don't worry if you have no idea what any of
these machines are supposed to do, you will after you get here. |
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Smith Conference Room - A
comfortable conference room for small discussion based classes. Coziest
chairs in the building. |
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Display Areas - Every year,
Southwestern science students are given the opportunity to display the
fruits of their research in the hallways of Beech Science Center. Many
of these students go on to present their research at state and national
scientific meetings such as Kansas Ornithological Society, Beta Beta
Beta Biological Society, Animal Behavior Society, and Society for
Integrative & Comparative Biology. |
Physics Department
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