Indiana's oldest private college, Hanover's 650-acre campus is home to not only streams, meadows, waterfalls, and trails, but also excellent science labs and its very own natural history museum.

Outdoor Environmental Training Center

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Fall 2009, RIH began work on a series of projects that will create an outdoor environmental training center for Hanover College which will include improving the trail system, converting the YMCA building into a classroom, building a teaching pavilion, installing an organic garden, and constructing an Ohio River observation platform.

Some of the current trail system has been cleaned and updated to accommodate people of all ages as well as larger groups. Additional work on the trails continues summer 2010. The YMCA building is being repaired as a classroom, and an outdoor pavilion installed near-by to provide an outdoor educational teaching center for school groups, summer camps, teachers and students. Hanover College owns an attractive piece of beach-front property on the Ohio River that will become the site for a river observation deck and site for the study of river and stream ecology.

Hanover College will continue to be a one of the most beautiful college campuses, and in the future it will also be an extraordinary campus for learning environmental science.

Science Center

Built in 2000, the Science Center features 14 classrooms, 34 laboratories (including the College’s cadaver lab), six student offices and research rooms, and 24 faculty and staff offices. It houses the Biology, Chemistry, Geology, Physics, Astronomy and Psychology departments.

Goodrich Hall
Built in 1947 as one of four new buildings surrounding the Quad, Goodrich is now a wing of the Science Center. Named after P.E. Goodrich, a member of the Board of Trustees, this wing of the Science Center houses the Psychology, Geology, Astronomy and Physics departments.

Natural History Museum
One of the Science Center’s many distinctive features are the museum-quality exhibits and displays found throughout the building including biological and geological specimens, Native American artifacts, historical documents, vintage laboratory equipment, and a striking ceramic fish wall in the second floor lounge.

Duggan Library
Constructed in 1973, the Duggan Library holds more than 225,000 print volumes, 300,000 documents, 50,000 micro texts, 5,000 audiovisual items and numerous electronic resources to support student research. The library houses a student computer lab with 24-hour-a-day access, small conference rooms, college archives, audio/visual carrels, independent study carrels, photocopying and printing rooms. The Duggan Library also houses the Hanover College Rivers Collection.