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He was a sailor that noticed, and tested experimentally, the importance of food by realizing that his crew would develop scurvy if they were not eating fruit. This changed the way Drs looked at food in medicine.
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Known as the "Father of Nutrition and Chemistry. He was the first person to conceptualize, and bring to light with experimental research, the idea of metabolism
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Catherine Beecher wrote the first FACS textbook that recognized by the Department of Education
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The Morrill Tariff of 1861 was a protective tariff law adopted in 1861. Morrill is best known for sponsoring the Morrill Act, also known as the Land Grant College Act. This act was signed into law by Abraham Lincoln in 1862.
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A land-grant university is a United States institute of higher education that was given federal land by the Morrill Acts of 1862 and 1890.
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The Land Grant Universities in AR include U of A and UAPB.
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Marth Rensselaer developed these services at Cornell University, and was also the President of AAFCS at the time.
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She is responsible for the creation of the American Home Economics Association and is known as the founder of FACS.
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Coined the term vitamins. His reasoning for the name was because vitamins are "vital" to survival and originate from "amine" groups in chemistry terms.
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Discovered the first fat-soluble vitamin. Vitamin-A
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The Smith–Lever Act of 1914 is a United States federal law that established a system of cooperative extension services.
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The Smith–Hughes National Vocational Education Act of 1917 was an act of the United States Congress that promoted vocational education in "agriculture, trades and industry, and homemaking", and provided federal funds for this purpose.
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Once the importance of vitamins were not only realized, but understood, the rat-race for the magic vitamin pill began with many unregulated products being sold by chemists in hopes of hitting it big.
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The Vocational Education Act of 1963 provided grants to states to maintain, improve, and develop vocational-technical education programs. The funds were earmarked for occupations in demand.
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The Vocational Education Act of 1963 provided grants to states to maintain, improve, and develop vocational-technical education programs. The funds were earmarked for occupations in demand.
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The Rehabilitation Act of 1973 was put in place to extend certain programs established in such Act, to establish a community service employment program for handicapped individuals, and to provide comprehensive services for independent living for handicapped individuals, to amend the Developmental Disabilities Services and Facilities Construction Act to revise and extend the programs under that Act, and for other purposes.
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The Amendment that helps uphold the Vocational Education Act of 1963.
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The act aims to increase the quality of technical education within the United States in order to help the economy.
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The Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Technical Education Act was first authorized by the federal government in 1984 and reauthorized in 1990
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It was reauthorized again in 2006.