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Research is housed in the Negaunee Integrative Research Center, which is a leader in state-of-the-art collections-based natural history research and social sciences. Research is being conducted in the fields of earth and planetary sciences, zoology, botany, and anthropology in disciplinary and interdisciplinary projects. The Negaunee Integrative Research Center is comprised of faculty-level curatorial staff, research scientists, postdoctoral scholars, graduate students, assistants and interns, and the Museum’s interdisciplinary laboratory facilities including the Pritzker Laboratory for Molecular Systematics and Evolution, the Grainger Bioinformatics Center, an Elemental Analysis Facility, a Scanning Electron Microscopy Lab, and Fossil Preparation Facilities and associated staff.

Scientific inquiry is at the center of the Field Museum. A community of curators, research scientists, postdoctoral scientists, and many more associated scholars, doctoral candidates, undergraduate student interns, and volunteers are involved in this important work. The Field Museum has adopted an integrative approach to research, building on its traditional strengths in Anthropology, Botany, Geology, Paleontology, and Zoology. This cross-disciplinary enterprise is unlocking some of nature's greatest mysteries.

Over thirty years, The Negaunee Foundation has made vital investments in Field Museum research. In the Because Earth Campaign, Negaunee's board of directors underwrote next generation research, sustained positions for leading scholars, and provided support to study pollinating insects. In recognition of the new level of scientific distinction enabled by these investments, the Field Museum Board of Trustees gratefully names its research program the Negaunee Integrative Research Center.

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