Crerar Library News

Chocolate Exhibit Lecture Featured in the Chicago Weekly

Last Friday's lecture by Beth Kimmerle was covered by this week's Chicago Weekly in their article: Home Sweet Home

The exhibit, Sweet Home Chicago: Chocolate and Confectionary Production and Technology in the Windy City is on display in the Crerar Library Atrium through June 11, 2011.

Beth Kimmerle's website : Candymonium    

History of candy and confectionery links for Sweet Home Chicago exhibit

The following are some links for more on Chicago's candy and confectionery industry history:

Photos from the Chicago Tribune archives

Beth Kimmerle's Candymonium

List of references used for Sweet Home Chicago: Chocolate and Confectionery Production and Technology in the Windy City

Sweet Home Chicago exhibit spotlighted on WBEZ

Exhibit curator Beth Kimmerle was interviewed on the 848 radio show about how the candy industry shaped Chicago. 

The interview is available here: http://www.chicagopublicradio.org/Content.aspx?audioID=45051

The Art of Science: Images from Argonne National Laboratory

 Crerar Library is hosting a traveling exhibit of 16 poster images of research done at Argonne National Laboratory.  All image were finalists in a 2009 Argonne image contest. The exhibit will run through May 27, 2010. More information about their contents is available here: http://web.me.com/po1950/Poster_Winners/Welcome.html.

Sweet Home Chicago: Chocolate and Confectionary Production and Technology in the Windy City

New Exhibit in the Crerar Library Atrium

Wrigley’s gum, Fannie May chocolate, and Cracker Jack are just some of the confections that have been created and manufactured in Chicago, a major center of candy production in the 20th century. Drawing from items in the substantial cookery collection at the John Crerar Library, this exhibit explores the history of chocolate and confectioners in the city and the science and technology of the candy making process. More information is available here:

http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/crerar/exhibits/    

New exhibit at Crerar: The Science of Sustainability

    The Science of Sustainability:  The Design and Technology of Green Buildings
The John Crerar Library - Atrium
April 5 - October 1, 2010

How do advances in science and technology affect approaches to sustainability in building design?  This exhibit explores building practices such as  green roofs, recycled building materials, and new energy technologies that can reduce a structure’s environmental impact.  It features the renovated Searle Chemistry Building as an example of green building design.

Prof. Richard Kron to speak at exhibit reception

The “Visions of Heavens” Astronomy Exhibit Reception will be held in the John Crerar Library on Tuesday, June 2^nd.  Professor Richard Kron will give a lecture on telescopes and their history.  Refreshments will be provided.  Please visit the exhibit page (http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/crerar/exhibits/) for more information and to RSVP.Image credit: NASA.gov.    

Changing the Face of Medicine exhibit at the Crerar Library

Dr. Janet Rowley to speak on May 18 in conjunction with exhibit!

 

Changing the Face of Medicine:  Celebrating America’s Women Physicians
First floor, John Cre    rar Library on view April 15-May 22, 2009

"This exhibition honors the lives and achievements of women in medicine. Women physicians have excelled in many diverse medical careers. Some have advanced the field of surgery by developing innovative procedures. Some have won the Nobel prize. Others have brought new attention to the health and well-being of children. Many have reemphasized the art of healing and the roles of culture and spirituality in medicine." (From: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/changingthefaceofmedicine/exhibition/)

This traveling exhibit is sponsored by the National Library of Medicine and open to the public.  More information on the exhibit’s itinerary is available at http://www.ala.org/ala/aboutala/offices/ppo/programming/changingface/exhibitionintinerary.cfm. 

Photo courtesy of Lori Arviso Alvord, M.D.

New Exhibit in Crerar Library

Visions of Heaven:  Astronomical Observation through the Ages
April 13-October 2, 2009

From ancient times to the modern day, humans have charted the sky and stars.  View a history of the tools they used, from the earliest observatories and instruments to recent innovations in telescope technology.   This exhibit is in conjunction with the celebration of the International Year of Astronomy 2009, the 400^th anniversary of Galileo’s use of the telescope.  More information is  available here: http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/crerar/exhibits/.

New Exhibit in Crerar Library

Science at the University of Chicago:  A History from the Library's Archival Photofiles

View more than 100 years of rarely seen photos of groundbreaking
University of Chicago research. See shots of the Yerkes Observatory –
the birthplace of astrophysics – and of famous science faculty
such as Enrico Fermi.

This exhibit highlights the history of the science department buildings at the University, focusing on their designs and technologies.

The Exhibit runs through March 31, 2009
Sponsored by the John Crerar Foundation

All photos are from the online Photofiles Archive  created by the Library's Special Collections Research Center.