 The Department houses one of only a handful of non-medical CT scanners at an academic institution anywhere in the world.The High Resolution X-Ray CT (UTCT) Facility has been used to non-destructively scan precious, one-of-a-kind specimens such as Lucy (an ancient human ancestor and the world's most famous fossil), "Archaeopteryx" (one of the oldest and most primitive birds known), one of the first books printed in the New World, and a meteorite thought by some to contain signs of life on Mars.The UTCT is an NSF-supported shared multi-user facility.