Doster Hall

Doster Hall

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Building # 7017 | Abbreviation: DO
College of Human Environmental Sciences

  • Dean’s Office
  • Clothing, Textiles, and Interior Design
  • Human Nutrition
  • Restaurant, Hotel and Meeting Management
  • Student Services

College of Human Environmental Sciences

Doster Hall has been home to the College of Human and Environmental Sciences since its construction in 1929.

The building’s first floor houses the HES Office of the Dean, HES Student Services, a meeting room, and a lecture hall. The second floor has offices and classrooms while the third contains a computer lab, classrooms, and sewing rooms. The lower level of Doster has vending machines, a classroom, and offices.

Doster Hall was built for the Home Economics Department as a part of the “women’s campus” and named for the dean of education James Jarvis Doster. The department later became the College of Human Environmental Sciences under Dean Judy Bonner in 1987.

Information collected from The University of Alabama : a guide to the campus by Robert Oliver Mellown (Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c1988), and The University of Alabama, a pictorial history by Suzanne Rau Wolfe (University : University of Alabama Press, c1983).