Ames Suites

   
Ames Suites Hall Staff

  
Ames Suites Amenities

Ames is a pod-style residence hall. A green building, Ames has been awarded the prestigious LEED-NC v2009 Gold Certification from the U.S. Green Building Council. 

As an Ames resident, you'll live in pods made up of three clusters. Each pod houses about 22 students and provides separate, private bathroom and shower facilities with shared sink areas. You'll also share common space furnished with a television, seating, table and chairs, plus a kitchenette area with lockers, full refrigerator/freezer, sink, microwave and island with stools. Each pod offers a scattered coed experience where males and females may reside as neighbors. 

Shared pod amenities: 

• Shared kitchen and dining/kitchenette area
• Shared living room area with mounted flat panel television
• Shared bathroom amenities - each pod is broken into three clusters, each cluster containing its own bathroom toilet, vanity and shower amenities.

  
Ann Lydecker Living Learning Center

George R. Field South Fork Suites and Jesse H. Ames Suites are connected on first floor through the Ann Lydecker Living Learning Center. 

The Living Learning Center comprises:

• A fireplace lounge
• Two small multi-purpose rooms (Dayton and Greenwood)
• A large gathering place that can be broken up into three smaller rooms (Prairie, Junction and Cascade)
• A beverage and snack machine across from the bathrooms
• A black & white PrintAnywhere printer, as well as Ames Suites mailboxes around the corner from the front desk

2024-2025 Hall Community

Substance-Free Community: This community is for students who choose to live a substance-free lifestyle. By selecting this community, both residents and their guests agree that use of alcohol or illegal drugs as defined by Wisconsin state law and university policy is prohibited. The Substance-Free Community is on a first year student-only floor.

2025-2026 Hall Communities

Substance-Free Community: Residents living in this community agree to observe a standard that prohibits the possession or use of alcohol and illegal drugs, as defined by Wisconsin law and university policy, by themselves or their guest(s) in the Substance Free Community. Residents agree that the use of any of these substances by themselves or their guest(s) outside the hall that disrupts the community within the hall is also prohibited.  

Pride Community: The Pride community provides students a safe space and the flexibility to accommodate the needs of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex and Asexual (LGBTQIA+) students, Allies and others for whom cultural or identity considerations are needed. The community provides the option for two students to share a room regardless of students' sex, gender identity or gender expression (meaning students can live in the same room with a person of a different assigned sex at birth).

Interested students must indicate in the housing application in the Residence Hall Portal that they are interested in the Pride Community. By selecting "yes" (you are interested), you'll be able to request a roommate of any gender.