About

Located on the southeast corner of Rollins St. and Virginia Ave, Hudson Hall stands alongside Gillett Hall. Both halls are structurally connected to Rollins Hall, which serves as a social and educational hub and a link to the Rollins Dining Hall. Hudson is near the Christopher Bond Life Sciences Center and the Anheuser-Busch

Anheuser-Busch

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 Natural Resource Building. The hall is co-ed, and has a capacity of nearly 480 students.

History

The hall is named after William Hudson, President of the University of Missouri from 1856 to 1859. William Hudson was also the first mathematics

Mathematics

Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...

 professor at the university. Hudson Hall was built and opened in 1966.

Present

Hudson Hall is currently under renovation. The building last housed students during the fall semester of 2008, but will reopen in the fall of 2010. The building is getting central air, along with other improvements, including new bathrooms.