An NSF-funded workshop project led by Field Museum Adjunct
Curator Robert Lücking received world-wide attention through a
report in the international science business journal
International Innovation. The article highlights Robert's
training activities in Latin America and focuses on the
particular situation in Colombia, where the project has
developed substantial scientific expertise in short time. An
incredible juvenile plumage of an Amazonian bird goes unknown
for 180 years - not any more. On April 9, 2013 the Field
Museum's Robert A. Pritzker Center for Meteoritics and Polar
Studies has obtained more than 2.2 pounds and 234 pieces of the
Chelyabinsk meteorite through a donation of meteorite collector
Terry Boudreaux. Pieces of the meteorite are available for
scientific research. Research on that meteorite will help us
better understand the history of the solar system in particular
its collisional history. The donation was extensively covered by
the media. The Chelyabinsk meteorites will be on public displ