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• Phillips, Brandon. “Making Modernity.” Inventors Digest, September 2008. (Not available online.)
  
• Glovas, Kim. “New Chemical Heritage Foundation Bldg. to Open this Fall.” Broadcast on KYW Newsradio 1060. Posted Saturday, August 9, 2008.  Read the transcript.

• ABC TV, Action News, Channel 6. "New Mural Honors Chemistry" Broadcast on "Action News" at 6 p.m., August 4, 2008.
  
• NBC TV Channel 10. "Shot of Kaleidoscope Image Being Installed at Chemical Heritage Foundation" Broadcast on Local News at 6 p.m., August 4, 2008.

• Lipton, Lauren.  "Chemistry Museum in Old City is More Than a Nerd's Paradise".  Broadcast on KYW Newsradio 1060's Positively Philadelphia series. Posted July 12, 2008.
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• Maule, R. Bradley.  "Chemical Substance" Phillyskyline blog, posted June 25, 2008. 
  
• Schimmel, Bruce.  "Renegade Green Goddess" Philadelphia City Paper, June 25, 2008. 

Alchemy

• Wilford, John Noble. "Transforming the Alchemists" New York Times, August 1, 2006. (links to PDF)
  
• Keck, Aries. "Alchemy's Renaissance" Marketplace, National Public Radio, August 1, 2006.

History

• Scudellari, Megan.  "Story Corps for Scientists" The Scientist NewsBlog, posted July 17, 2008. 
  • Note: you must register with the site to read the article. An exerpt: "Nobel prize-winning geneticist Joshua Lederberg, liposome pioneer and essayist Gerald Weissmann, Lasker Prize-winning microbiologist Carol Greider -- these are only a smattering of the scientists whose thoughts, reflections, and tribulations have been recorded in oral histories as part of the Pew Oral History Project, a recently-forged collaboration between the Pew Charitable Trusts and the Chemical Heritage Foundation."  Read more >
    
• Mangravite, Andrew. "IUPAC History Preserved: Processing Addenda to the Records of IUPAC" Chemistry International, Vol. 27 No. 4, July-August 2005.
  
• Bowden, Mary Ellen. "Joseph Priestly: Radical Thinker" Chemistry International, Vol. 27 No. 3, May-June 2005.

Cover Stories

• Joumel, Laure. "Before "Modern" Chemistry: A Stroll Inside the French Books from the Roy G. Neville Historical Chemical Library" Chemistry International, Vol. 29 No. 2, March-April 2007.
  
• Joumel, Laure. "New Science Education Assessment: The Challenge" Chemistry International, Vol. 28, No. 4, June-July 2006.
  
  
• McIlvain, Josh. "Women in Chemistry" her Lab in Your Life" Chemistry International, Vol. 26 No. 6, November-December 2004.

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