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• Touching the Carina Nebula, NPR Science Friday - April 23, 2010
  http://www.sciencefriday.com/arts/2010/04/touching-the-carina-nebula
  
  
• Touch the Earth Display at Earth Day on the National Mall - April 19, 2010
  http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/touch-the-earth-to-display-at-earth-day-on-the-national-mall-91545279.html
  
  
• "Woman's mission helps sight-impaired 'see' the universe, Plainville Citizen - March 18, 2010
  http://youcandoastronomy.com/plainsvilleart/article.htm
  
  
• Astrocast TV (interview with Carolyn Collins Petersen), Jan 2010
  http://www.astrocast.tv/tau/astronomeru.html
  
  
• Accessible Astronomy : Touching The Night Sky
  Universe Today - Jan 15, 2010
  http://www.universetoday.com/2010/01/15/accessible-astronomy-touching-the-night-sky/
  
  
• You Can Do Astronomy
  365 Days of Astronomy Podcast - Jan 14, 2010
  http://365daysofastronomy.org/2010/01/14/january-14th-you-can-do-astronomy/
  
  
• "Seeing" Stars
  Bostonia Magazine, Fall 2008
  http://www.bu.edu/bostonia/fall08/grice/
  
  
• "She was determined to let the blind touch the stars" (Boston Globe, Sept. 22, 2008)
  http://www.boston.com/news/science/articles/2008/09/22/she_was_determined_to_let_the_blind_touch_the_stars/
  
  
• National Federation of the Blind Junior Science Academy, July 2008
  http://www.blindscience.org/ncbys/Junior_Science_Academy.asp
  


• Feeling the Cosmos (Geotimes, May 2008):
  http://www.geotimes.org/may08/article.html?id=education.html
  


• Time for Kids (Time Magazine for Schools) - March 14, 2008
  http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/teachers/wr/article/0,27972,1720920,00.html
  


• Noreen's interview on National Public Radio (NPR) Jan 16, 2008:
  http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18137734
  


• Science@NASA web page:
  http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/15jan_touch.htm



• The Baltimore Sun , Jan, 16, 2008:
  http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/annearundel/bal-md.blind16jan16,0,295804.story
  
  
• Discovery News, Jan 16, 2008:
  http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/01/16/braille-astronomy-blind.html



• News Wise from the Space Telescope Science Institute , Jan 15, 2008:
  http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/536916/
  


• 2007 Klumpke-Roberts Award Recipient
  http://204.202.243.94/membership/awards/07winnerspub.html



• Rabbi Shira Strern speech
  http://www.trt.org/hh_sermons/d2rh5764.html



• WJZ Baltimore -- New Book Brings the Sun to Life for Blind
  http://wjz.com/seenon/local_story_336200844.html



• NASA Feature Story on Touch the Sun
  http://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/solarsystem/kids_touch_the_sun.html
  
  
• Book helps blind children Touch the Sun
  http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/book_helps_blind_children_touch_the_sun_9412
  
  
• Touch the Sun Book Launch 12/02/2005
  http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10299051/



• NASA Press Release for Touch the Sun
  http://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/solarsystem/touch_sun.html
  
  
• Space.com Touch the Sun Page
  http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=15701



• Touch the Sun NASA Page
  http://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/solarsystem/touch_sun.html



• SOHO Web Page on Touch the Sun
  http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/hotshots/
  
  
• RADIO INTERVIEW  with David Levy - Let's Talk Stars - Jan. 2004
  www.letstalkstars.com/cgi-bin/survey.pl?170,1/27/04,Noreen%20Grice
  
  
• Smithsonian Magazine - To Touch the Heavens, by David L. Chandler
  
  
• Remarks by the Honorable Sean O'Keefe at the National Federation of the Blind 01.30.04



• Review of Touch The Universe by Carol Castellano -- Braille Monitor, April 2003



• Blind Youths Expand Horizons - Louisville Courier-Journal newspaper - June 29, 2003
  http://www.courier-journal.com/localnews/2003/06/29ky/met-front-blind06290-6743.html



• RADIO INTERVIEW with Todd Mundt - Dec. 2002
  http://toddshow.org/log/dailylistings/12132002.asp



• NFB Hosts Public Release of Touch The Universe, by Barbara Cheadle
  http://analyzer.depaul.edu/ttu/press/fr03co05.htm



• NFB Hosts Public Release of NASA Touch The Universe: A NASA Braille Book fo Astronomy
  http://www.nfb.org/coming/nasarelease.htm



• New NASA Book Helps Blind to "See" Cosmos, National Geographic Today
  http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/12/1202_021202_TVbrailleastronomy.html



• Astronomers Collaborate on a Project that Allows Blind to "See" Images
  http://www.aapd-dc.org/News/disability/hubbleimages.html



• NASA Library NEWS: The Story of the Universe
  http://origins.jpl.nasa.gov/library/story/111902-a_old.html



• Space Flight Now
  http://www.aviationnow.com/content/ncof/ncf_n32.htm



• Bringing the Universe Into Anyone's Reach, Baltimore Sun
  http://analyzer.depaul.edu/ttu/press/baltimore%20sun.pdf



• Prepare to Touch The Universe by Jeremy McGovern, Astronomy.com
  http://analyzer.depaul.edu/ttu/press/Prepare%20to%20Touch%20the%20Universe.htm



• Hubble Book Helps Visually Impaired People Touch The Stars, NASA JPL
  http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/releases/2001/braillebook.html
  
  
• Aluminum Helps Blind to See
  http://www.aluminum.org/Template.cfm?Section=20012&template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=1719
  
  
  
• Book Brings Hubble Images to the Blind, UPI
  http://analyzer.depaul.edu/ttu/press/upi.pdf



• Tactile Astronomy Book is Unveiled, Associated Press
  http://analyzer.depaul.edu/ttu/press/ap.pdf



• Visually Impaired Students Touch The Stars with New Hubble Book
  http://www.govertschilling.nl/nieuws/archief/2001/0106/010604_nasa.htm



• New Book Opens Hubble Space Telescope Images to Blind, Reuters
  http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/hubble_blind_010605.html