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March 2008
March came in like a fifteeen degree Lion of Tsavo here at the Field Museum, Mark Westneat wasn't affected because he was at the Assembling the Tree of Life Annual PI Meeting (AToL) from March 7-9 which happened to be in warm New Orleans, Louisiana. Besides carousing in the music-filled New Orleans air, Mark and Paddy gave presentations to the meeting on the EoL and BioSynC accompanied by much (two hours!) of productive discussion. Mark returned to Chicago to find that construction of the new Synthesis Center had been completed and on March 12 the staff moved in to their comfortable, well-lit, energy efficient new offices. Have I mentioned that we are now the greenest part of the Field Museum? Almost everything in the new space is recycled or energy efficient, down to our potato-starch eating utensils.
The new Synthesis Center has quickly become a place where people from all over the museum feel comfortable stopping by to say hello and talk about science. Audrey has found that if she leaves baked goods out on the counter, which she often does, they will be gone by the end of the day and our lounge is almost always filled during lunch time. We finished construction in time to debut it at Museum Members night (March 27-28th) which had a record high attendance of 10,687 guests in two nights. We had mild but constant traffic and screened the EOL demo video in our large conference room on a loop the entire time. We also encouraged people to explore the web site live on our new computer consoles in the lounge.
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