- A Lost Picasso? Uncovering Old Secrets to Identify Modern Sculptures
Alloy composition profiles could help identify, date and authenticate
bronzes http://www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/stories/2009/08/sculptureDNA.html
- F. Casadio “The Synchrotron: Particle Accelerator or Time Machine?
A Tale of Ancient Chinese Bronzes and Cutting-Edge Contemporary Technology,” Bulletin
of the Asian Art Society of the Art Institute, 2005
- “Behind the Scenes: Conservators take a look back in
time” in News and Events, The Art Institute of Chicago,
members’ magazine, November/December 2005
- “Partners Strengthen Art Conservation. Northwestern’s
Effort with Art Institute, Argonne Lab Will Offer a Model of Cross
disciplinary Collaboration,” by Megan Fellman, Northwestern
Observer, December 1, 2005. Front page and page 7.
- “Northwestern Collaborates with Art Institute on Conservation
Science,” December, Northwestern e-news sent to more than
81,000 alumni and friends of the university. http://www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/stories/2005/11/conservation.html
- “Cutting through the mists of Time” an article featured
on the Web site of the Advanced Photon Source (APS) and made available
in the lobby of Argonne’s APS main building in 2006.
- “Not Jaded about Research. Engineering School, Art Institute
Collaboration Unravels Historical Mystery,” posted on-line on
NU website on Tuesday, February 7th, 2006: http://www.ugadm.northwestern.edu/newsletter/mccormick.html (the
link is unfortunately no longer active)
- “The Art Of Teaching: Revealing Mysteries of the Past” in
Centerpiece, A quarterly Publication Featuring the Northwestern University
Research Centers, Fall 2006, Vol. 6 / Number 1, pp. 5
- Art and Science collaborate to explore the past with X-Rays at Argonne
National Laboratory posted in the Argonne website on April, 2nd, 2007
(http://www.anl.gov/Media_Center/News/2007/APS070330.html)
and broadcasted on 3/26/07 on Chicago NPR station WBEZ (http://audio.wbez.org/cityroom/2007/03/cityroom_20070326_lkalsnes_Big%20.mp3)
- “Historic sunset regained” by Richard Van Noorden, published
on line on Chemistry World, a journal of the Royal chemical Society,
April 3, 2007 (http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/News/2007/April/03040701.asp)
- “Study in scarlet. Why was there no color in the sky of a Winslow
Homer painting? Art Institute detectives crack this and other mysteries”,
By Marni Pyke, the Daily Herald, Posted Tuesday, May 01, 2007 (http://www.dailyherald.com/search/printstory.asp?id=307987)
- “Photonics for Art’s Sake”, by Hank Hogan, Photonics
Spectra, June 2007, Vol. 41, Issue 6, pp. 46-53
- “Students explore the intersection of science and art. Why
is red paint red?”, McCormick, Spring 2007, page 14, an article
on NU’s magazine on the research experience for teacher’s
internship shared between with NU and AIC.
- Beneath the color, secrets of an artist: High-tech tools shed
light on how Winslow Homer created his masterpieces by William Mullen,
Feb 29, 2008 Chicago Tribune, front page and page 14;
- Northwestern Observer, Northwestern University News and Information,
March 29, 2007 'Watching Art and Science Come Together”;
- Northwestern Observer, Northwestern University News and Information,
June 26th, 2008, “Investigating Homer’s Lost Reds” by
Megan Fellman p.7;
- “Encounter: Dr. Richard P. Van Duyne, Color Guard” by
Jeff Cockrell, Northshore Magazine, August 2008, p.17;
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“Conserving masterpieces: today’s chemists penetrate
mysteries of yesterday’s art” by Lisa Stein, in Cross Currents
printed by Northwestern University’s Weinberg college of art and
sciences fall/winter 2007/2008 volume 8, number 2, p.18-20 (include
also image of first page of pdf (cross-Current_2008.pdf) |

Alyson Whitney received the
young investigator award for the best oral presentation at the recent
3rd International Conference on the application
of Raman Spectroscopy in Art and Archaeology, Paris, Aug. 31-Sept. 3
2005. Alyson presented the work from “An innovative surface-enhanced
Raman spectroscopy (SERS) method for the identification of six traditional
red lakes and dyestuffs” Alyson V. Whitney, Richard P. Van Duyne
and Francesca Casadio.
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