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 ...

In 1917, scores of patriotic young women, later known as “radium girls,” counted themselves lucky to have landed war work at a large warehouse complex in Orange, New Jersey. The pay was ...

She would later appear at the American Museum of Natural History, where an exhibit commemorated her discovery of radium. The American Chemical Society, the New York Mineralogical Club, cancer ...

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 ...

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.

Theatrikos Theatre Company will present a one-night-only readers theatre production of Radium Girls by D.W. Gregory, directed by Adam Wintz. This powerful performance will take place on Saturday ...