Meet a Scientist: The SUE Project

Name: Meet a Scientist: The SUE Project
Start: 2025-07-11T11:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-07-11T13:00:00-05:00
Location: 1400 S. Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable Lake Shore Drive , Chicago, IL, United States, Illinois 60605

Field Museum

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Fri, 11 Jul, 2025 at 11:00 am

2 hours

1400 S. Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable Lake Shore Drive , Chicago, IL, United States, Illinois 60605

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Fri, 11 Jul, 2025 at 11:00 am to 01:00 pm (CDT)

1400 S. Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable Lake Shore Drive, Illinois 60605

1400 E McFetridge Dr, IL 60605-2827, Illinois, Chicago, United States

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Meet a Scientist: The SUE Project

Celebrate the Summer of SUE with a special Meet a Scientist event highlighting the story of SUE the T. rex! 🎉

Meet Bill Simpson, Head of Geological Collections and McCarter Collections Manager of Fossil Vertebrates, as he shares his experience with SUE from the very beginning of the project. 👨‍🔬

Bill will discuss examining the fossil prior to auction, the auction itself, preparation of the fossil, facilitating research on SUE, providing input on the mounting, re-mounting in Stanley Field Hall, unveiling live on morning TV shows May 17, 2000, and directing the dismantling, move and re-mounting of SUE in 2018. 📕

🎟️ Included with admission.

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Meet a Scientist: The SUE Project

Fri, 11 Jul, 2025 at 11:00 am