Pearson Hall

Pearson Hall is the biological science building at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. The building was originally known as The Biological Science Building, but was renamed Pearson Hall as a dedication to Miami’s 18th President. Prior to being a building, the area where Pearson Hall stands now was known as Miami Field, Miami University’s original athletic field. The building caters to a wide range of different science departments including ecology, genetics, biology, and neuroscience. Some of the notable features of Pearson Hall are its Electron Microscope Facility and the Animal Care Facility. Pearson Hall also is home to two large aquatic Animal rooms used to replicate oceanic and freshwater environments. Another feature of Pearson is its instruments in the environmental and ecological toxicology department, which enables an array of different testing’s and analysis to be conducted within the building. The Behavioral ecology department has a special laboratory used for hormonal analysis and behavioral testing. The entomology department contains an insect collection of over 82,000 specimens.HistoryIn 1986 The Biological Sciences Building was constructed in the previous location of Miami Universities historic Miami Field. The Ribbon Cutting Ceremony was held at 8 AM, on November 1, 1986. The attendance included many Ohio government officials, professors, donors, and Miami Staff. After opening the building was used for a variety of different science departments.In 1993 the Biological Sciences Building was later dedicated to Dr. Paul G. Pearson, who was the 18th president of Miami University. Dr. Pearson received the honor of having his name dedicated because the building was one of several major construction projects built during Pearson’s presidency. Pearson Hall, being one of the more recently constructed buildings at Miami paved the way for a complete restructuring of Miami’s landscape. Following its erections in 1986 a new engineering building psychology building, and the Farmer School of Business completed the “Academic Quadrangle” between Tallawanda, Patterson, and High.