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Ward Melville Social & Behavioral Sciences	building

The seven-story Ward Melville Social & Behavioral Sciences (S.B.S.) building was built on the Stony Brook University campus southeast of the university's Academic Mall off Irwin P. Staller Way (part of the university's Circle Road) in 1977.

So tall that it overlooks the pacific and picturesque Long Island Sound separating the southern New York State island from Connecticut, the brown-brick structure was designed in the Modern 20th-century style by Roland Thompson. The building stands closest to the Administration Parking Garage, yet near the Administration, Humanities building, Psychology, Jacob K. Javits Lecture Center, and the Life Sciences/ Biomedical Engineering complex.

Today the Social & Behavioral Sciences building continues to house the departments of Political Science (on its top or 7th floor), Public Policy (also on the 7th), Economics (6th floor), Anthropology (5th floor), Sociology (4th floor), and History (3rd floor).

The lower floors of S.B.S. include an entrance lobby, study areas, and classrooms. Although Psychology is also considered to be a Behavioral science at Stony Brook, its department is housed in two older, separate, twin-like buildings labeled "Psychology A" and "Psychology B."

Some famous S.B.S. researchers and professors in past decades have included paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey, sociologist John Gagnon, economist Robert Aumann, sociologist Rose Laub Coser, anthropologist Meeve Leakey, political methodologist Helmut Norpoth, sociologist Mark Granovetter, physical anthropologist Patricia Wright, historian Hugh Cleland, political psychologist Milton Lodge, sociologist Daniel Levy, politician Brooke Ellison, psychologist Emil Wolfgang Menzel, Jr., and political scientist Randall L. Schweller.