Heartland Film presents Radium Girls, a part of Science on Screen®, a unique film series that allows audiences to experience the intersection of film and science in celebration of National Science on Screen® Day!

Doors will open at 6:30 PM. Arrive early to purchase concessions and drinks at the Heartland Film Bar! The conversation will start at 7:00 PM, with the film starting promptly after the speaker ends.

Meet the Speaker:

Barrett S. Caldwell, PhD is Professor of Industrial Engineering, and Aeronautics & Astronautics, at Purdue. He has a PhD (Univ. of California, Davis, 1990) in Social Psychology, and BS degrees in Aeronautics and Astronautics, and Humanities (MIT, 1985). His research team is the Group Performance Environments Research (GROUPER) Laboratory. GROUPER examines and improves how people get, share, and use information in settings including aviation, critical incident response, healthcare, and spaceflight operations. His CV includes over 50 peer reviewed journal papers, over 150 peer reviewed conference papers, and over 15 book chapters addressing multiple areas of human factors and systems engineering. 

Presenter Overview:

The story of “The Radium Girls,” as presented in the movie and book, helps to teach us about the development of science and technology policy in a social context, including the social costs of technological naivete and organizational callousness. We may forget how our current environment of oversight and regulation is built on the bodies of past abuses, but the personalization of the workers in New Jersey and Illinois helps us remember these painful lessons.

Thank you to our bar sponsors: Francis Ford Coppola Winery, Metazoa Brewing Co., Shake Up, Sun King Brewery