In 2008, landscapers dug into the ground of Patrick Mahaffy’s backyard in ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ. They unearthed 83 stone tools that were about 13,000 years old.
In the summers of 1958 and 1960, CU ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ’s first curator of anthropology, Joe Ben Wheat, excavated the Olsen-Chubbuck site, an area near Kit Carson, Colorado, that contained remains of bison dating to 8200 B.C.
Hale was the first science building on campus and at one point housed all the sciences, a small museum and the School of Law. The building was named after the second university president, Horace Hale.