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PHILADELPHIA, PA—10 November 2008—The Chemical Heritage Foundation (CHF) has named Shelley Wilks Geehr its director of the Roy Eddleman Institute for Interpretation and Education. She will lead CHF's public outreach and education efforts including: the publication of Chemical Heritage magazine; the Distillations podcast; “Periodic Tabloid;” and future staff blogs; and outreach programs to bring the content of CHF’s new museum to everyone interested in the history of chemistry, both through visits and informal education programs. Geehr will also oversee CHF’s Web site and bring its popular online history resources to a wider audience around the world. She has worked more than ten years at CHF in publishing and educational outreach, both in print and online.
Before coming to CHF, Geehr managed publications for the Risk Management Association and worked on their first Web development project. She just completed her term as a member of the board of directors of the MidAtlantic Book Publishers Association and was a member of the Philadelphia Book Clinic for 10 years.
The Roy Eddleman Institute for Interpretation and Education
The Roy Eddleman Institute for Interpretation and Education is the public outreach arm of CHF. The Institute broadly serves CHF’s mission of treasuring the past, educating the present, and inspiring the future.
About the Chemical Heritage Foundation
The Chemical Heritage Foundation serves the community of the chemical and molecular sciences, and the wider public, by treasuring the past, educating the present, and inspiring the future. CHF carries out a program of outreach and interpretation, in order to advance an understanding of the role of the chemical and molecular sciences, technologies, and industries in shaping society; maintains a world-class collection of materials that document the history and heritage of the chemical and molecular sciences, technologies and industries; and encourages research in its collections. For more information, please visit www.chemheritage.org.
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