September 12, 2013, at the Linda Hal Library
According to Dr. Kenneth Lacovara, Professor of Paleontology and Geology at Rowan Unversity (formerly at Drexel University when he delivered this lecture), “technology in paleontology hasn’t changed in about 150 years. We use shovels and pickaxes and burlap and plaster. It hasn't changed-until right now.” Dr. Lacovara shares his pioneering work in using laser scans and 3D printing technology to create and test scale models of fossil bones for educational use, museum display, and for testing hypotheses about how dinosaurs moved and behaved.
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