Without exception, the radium girls were told the paint was safe to ... radium would luminesce after exposure to light, so that a watch face painted with the stuff could soak up energy during ...

An Augustana College student and filmmaker is determined to shed light on the stories of the Illinois radium girls, a group of female factory workers who ingested potentially deadly amounts of ...

Radium Girls, now being performed by CAST, brings their courageous fight for justice to life, focusing on one woman’s battle against the U.S. Radium Corporation. Actress Sylvia Pancake portrays ...

“Radium Girls” is recommended for ages 12 and up and will be performed on Wednesday-Saturday, April 2-5, in the Fourth Avenue ...

For The Radium Girls, students rehearsed through Zoom, their scene partners sequestered to tiny Brady Bunch-esque boxes on computer screens - separated, in some cases, by hundreds of miles.