The Roy Eddleman Institute for Interpretation and Education
The Roy Eddleman Institute for Interpretation and Education is the outreach arm of CHF. The Institute’s outreach efforts are shared among two programs—collections and education. The Institute broadly serves CHF’s mission of treasuring the past, educating the present, and inspiring the future.

While many organizations promote science or chemistry education, CHF is distinguished from them by basing outreach programs on its unparalleled collections of books and journals, archives, oral histories, artworks, instruments, and apparatuses. These collective resources constitute the material record of the human endeavor to investigate and shape nature through discovery and invention, a record that touches every aspect of life. Interpreting that record through a wide range of activities is the mission of the Institute. Through its outreach programs, the Institute conveys to a broad audience the excitement and implications of chemical innovation through time.

Collections
The Institute is steward to CHF’s collections of archives, artworks, instruments, and apparatuses. Set to open in 2008, new galleries will showcase these collections. The Institute plans an ambitious schedule of exhibits, establishing a new model of collaboration with other institutions to present multidisciplinary and multicontextual shows on the role of the chemical sciences.

For more information about CHF collections, please see the collections section on this site or email collections@chemheritage.org.

Education
Educational programs serve two functions, support for those who teach others and promotion of a broader public understanding of science. Current educational programs include television production, workshops for teachers, Web-based curricula, and traveling exhibits. The Institute also functions as an annual forum for academics, educational administrators, entrepreneurs, teachers, industry representatives, government officials, and other policy makers for the annual Leadership Initiative in Science Education (LISE) conference.

For more information about CHF educational programs, please see the education section on this site or email EducationPrograms@chemheritage.org.