Peterson is a medium co-ed hall. It has both traditional style rooms and suite style rooms in singles or doubles, all air-conditioned. Each of the five floors have a large open lounge area and a study lounge. The first floor has a kitchen, laundry facility and a recreation lounge with a large screen television and Ping-Pong table.
Peterson Hall offers gender inclusive restrooms.
Building Floor Plans
Suites and Room Types
These numbers do not include expanded occupancy spaces (built-up rooms/converted lounges).
Peterson Room Types | Total of Room Types in Building |
Traditional Doubles | 32 |
Traditional Singles | 8 |
Suite (2 Doubles) | 24 |
Suite (2 Doubles and 2 Singles) | 5 |
Life Sciences Residential Learning Community (RLC)
Are you going to be a student in the College of Life Sciences and Agriculture (COLSA)? Will you be taking Biology and Chemistry classes during your first year? Why not live with other students majoring in life sciences? First-year students will live together on a floor in Peterson Hall and form a creative environment for group studying and social interaction. This community is an interactive learning environment designed to help students succeed in first-year science courses. Students will be able to easily form study groups with people on the floor as well as attend review sessions in a lounge on their floor. What a great way to make connections to people with whom you share an interest and succeed academically!
To qualify you must be an incoming first-year student majoring in one of the following:
- Animal Sciences
- Biochemistry, Molecular and Cellular Biology
- Biology
- Biomedical Science
- Genetics
- Marine, Estuarine and Freshwater Biology
- Neuroscience and Behavior
- Zoology
If you are part of any of the majors listed above, you will qualify for the Residential Learning Community selection where you will have priority in selecting the specific area.
- Building entrance unlocked and opened by remote
- Roll in access to building and 1st floor
- Automatic door opener for front door
- Braille signs
- Elevator
- AC
- Building entrance unlocked and opened by remote
- Roll in access to building and 1st floor
- Automatic door opener for front door
- Braille signs
- Elevator
- AC
August, 2007
Opened in August 2007, SERC Hall B was renamed to Peterson Hall in the summer of 2013.