Grover

Grover Center houses the College of Health and Human Services, including the Dean's Office, the Schools of Health Sciences, Hearing, Speech, and Language Sciences, Human and Consumer Sciences, Nursing, Physical Therapy, and Recreation and Sport Sciences, WellWorks--the University's wellness program, and Ohio University Therapy Associates, which includes Physical Therapy and Hearing, Speech, and Language clinics.

The building includes over 50 classrooms and specialty labs, seating for nearly 1,600 and about 150 faculty and staff offices. Special features include a distance learning room, internet and projection technology in every classroom, a 24-station computer lab, and the Marion Parson Alden gallery for the display of student design projects.

From 1996 to 2001 the building was renovated at a cost of $24.5 million, boosting the size to almost 200,000 square feet. Besides the concrete foundation, thick steel beams above what used to be the gymnasium, and a few other structural features, hardly any of old Grover remains.

At the heart of the new Grover is an expansive atrium with a wide, circular stairway winding to the third of three floors. On each floor, the atrium opens up to program entrances that, along with skylights and old-sytle lampposts, lend a streetscape feel. The brick exterior mimics the Georgian flavor seen elsewhere on campus.