In January, the Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Museum of Natural History unveiled a full-scale Triceratops in the lobby of the SEEC building on the Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder’s East Campus.
In the summers of 1958 and 1960, Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder’s first curator of anthropology, Joe Ben Wheat, excavated the Olsen-Chubbuck site, an area near Kit Carson, Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ, that contained remains of bison dating to 8200 B.C.
Hale was the first science building on campus and at one point housed all the sciences, a small museum and the School of Law. The building was named after the second university president, Horace Hale.