Women in Science Luncheon 2025

Women in Science Luncheon

Women's History Month

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Between a Rock and a Hard Place

Akiko Shinya holds a pick hammer and stands in a grassy area with badlands in the background.

Working in Paleontology: Inspiration and Advice

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Akiko Shinya on a prospecting trip in the Dinosaur Provincial Park in Alberta, Canada. She and the team found several dinosaurs, including an ankylosaur. (This was during the August 2017 solar eclipse event, hence why Akiko’s holding eclipse glasses!)

A vertebra bone that has iridescent rainbow coloring on one side.

Working in Paleontology: An Introduction to the Collections

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A composite image of four people who work in paleontology at the Field Museum: Az Klymiuk, Pia Viglietti, Adrienne Stroup, and Akiko Shinya.

Working in Paleontology: Projects, Studies, and Interests

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Botanical illustration of a bunch of yellow flowers, with three with and pink flowers in the center. The arrangement includes golden samphires, daisies, and flea banes.

The Popular and Prolific Ms. Pratt

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Two women wearing headlamps peer into the mouth of a large taxidermy elephant

Q&A with a Conservator on the Complex History of Ivory

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Conservators Eugenie Milroy (left) and Stephanie Hornbeck examine the teeth and tusks of one of the Akeley elephants in the Field Museum's Stanley Field Hall

A woman sitting at a desk with art supplies, holding a pencil in hand and drawing a nautilus

Bringing Fossils to Life Through Art

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Woman sitting at a table in a lab, holding a marker and writing on something small

Women in Science and Art: Rebecca Banasiak, Mammals Collections Assistant and Preparator

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Numbering small skeletal specimens that will be installed into the main mammals collection.

A woman holding an electric hand tool and a painter's brush, leaning over a large mass of dirt with bones protruding from it

Women in Science: Akiko Shinya, Fossil Preparator

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A woman smiling at the camera, standing in a green field with mountains in the background

Women in Science: Corrie Moreau, Evolutionary Biologist and Entomologist

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Collecting ants in the Chiricahua desert in Arizona as part of a field course Corrie helps teach each summer.

Two photos side-by-side: A women sitting in front of a large drill, and a bowl with a gold bracket attached to it, for display

What's in a Name? That Which We Call a Dinosaur

Women in Art: Ann Prazer, Mountmaker

A woman, standing waist deep in water, tags an arapaima, a large freshwater fish. A man helps to hold the fish while several people in the background watch.

Women in Science: Lesley de Souza, Conservation Biologist

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Lesley de Souza, a conservation biologist in the Andes-Amazon Program, tags an arapaima fish with a radio transmitter in Guyana on South America’s North Atlantic coast.

A woman drawing on a large sheet of paper, in a forest of bright green, leafy plants

Women in Art: Peggy Macnamara, Artist in Residence

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A woman sitting at a dashboard in front of many computer screens

Women in Science: Alaka Wali, Curator of North American Anthropology

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Side-by-side of a woman seated at a desk, working on a drawing, and a close-up of an illustration of orange foxes

Women in Art: Adrienne Stroup, Geology Collections Assistant

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Woman wearing a baseball cap and blue shirt in a rainforest-like setting, holding a large rock

Women in Science: Corine Vriesendorp, Conservation Ecologist

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Colorful illustration of a landscape with palm trees, a stream, and rhino-like animals in front of a sunset

Picturing the Past Through Scientific Illustration

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Four people signing documents, three of them wearing traditional Haida straw hats

Q&A with General Counsel Lori Breslauer

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Lori Breslauer, left, at a Haida repatriation signing ceremony. 

The Field Museum

Periods and Fieldwork

Bullet Ant Venom

How to Taxidermy a Squirrel

Investigating the Trees of Amazonia

Into Perú

Fossil Fish, PT. III: The Preparation

How to Pin an Insect

Fields of Thought

The Breast Episode Ever

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The Brain Scoop

Romantic Ants

Visiting the Economic Botanical Collection

Where My Ladies At?

FMWIS: Why is the Pipeline So Leaky?

Malvina Hoffman's Expedition

Fossils, Rocks, and Akiko

Fossil Carrion Feeders

Ylanda Wilhite

Sara Ruane

Janet Voight

Two visitors sit together on a bench, looking at life-size sculptures of people by Malvina Hoffman. In the foreground several bronze busts are displayed in a glass case.

Looking at Ourselves: Rethinking the Sculptures of Malvina Hoffman

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The Changing Face of Science

Akiko Shinya

Jingmai O'Connor

Margaret Thayer portrait

Margaret Thayer

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Deborah Bekken

New Changing Face of Science exhibition highlights multifaceted snake scientist

Women’s History Month at Field Museum Highlights Variety of Research

Field Museum Women in Science Internships

A crowd gathers to hear a speaker in Lecture Hall II. People sit in chairs facing a stage. A speaker stands at a podium, and a projector casts an image of outer space onto a screen against the wall.

Women in Science

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The hall is perfect for hosting a variety of event types, from meetings and presentations to corporate retreats.

Join Field Museum Women in Science!

Two women hold up a painting of a zebra by Field Museum artist-in-residence Peggy McNamara, while standing behind a podium with the Museum’s logo on it. Other Women’s Board members, seated at tables, look on.

Women's Board

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Women in Science

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Between a Rock and a Hard Place

Working in Paleontology: Inspiration and Advice

Working in Paleontology: An Introduction to the Collections

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Ylanda Wilhite

Sara Ruane

Janet Voight

People

Akiko Shinya

Jingmai O'Connor

Margaret Thayer

Deborah Bekken

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New Changing Face of Science exhibition highlights multifaceted snake scientist

Women’s History Month at Field Museum Highlights Variety of Research

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