-
Period: to
Benjamin Thompson (Count von Rumford)
American-born British physicist, government administrator, and a founder of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, London. -
Rumford Kitchen
The first commercially available modern kitchen ranges began to appear about 1800, they were the invention of Count von Rumford, an American. -
Benjamin Thompson
His work resulted in improved fireplaces and chimneys, and among his inventions are a double boiler, a kitchen range, and a drip coffeepot. He also introduced the potato as a staple food. -
Period: to
Mary Jane Patterson
Mary Jane Patterson is thought to be the first black woman to graduate from an established four-year college in the United States. -
Period: to
Ellen Swallow Richards
She was the founder of the home economics movement characterized by the application of science to the home, and the first to apply chemistry to the study of nutrition. -
Period: to
Wilbur Olin Atwaters
American scientist who developed agricultural chemistry and nutrition science. Pioneer in the study of human nutrition and metabolism, and considered the father of modern nutrition research and education. -
Mary Jane Patterson
She spent her career creating new educational opportunities for nineteenth-century black Americans. First African-American woman to receive a B.A degree. -
Land-Grant University
The Land-Grant University, also called land-grant college or land-grant institution is an institution of higher education in the United States designated by a state to receive the benefits of the Morrill Acts of 1862 and 1890. The mission of these institutions as set forth in the 1862 Act is to focus on the teaching of practical agriculture, science, military science, and engineering -
Justin Morril/Morril Act
Sponsored by Vermont Congressman Justin Morrill, the Morrill Act was signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln on July 2, 1862. Officially titled "An Act Donating Public Lands to the Several States and Territories which may provide Colleges for the Benefit of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts," the Morrill Act provided each state with 30,000 acres of Federal land for each member in their Congressional delegation. -
Ellen Swallow Richards
She was the first woman to be admitted to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.(MIT) in 1871. She was admitted as a special student, making her the first woman in America to enter a scientific school. -
Land Grant Universities in Arkansas
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Founded in 1871 as the Arkansas Industrial University on the site of a hilltop farm overlooking the Ozark Mountains. The school’s name was changed to the University of Arkansas in 1899. University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, Pine Bluff. Founded in 1873 and opened in 1875 as the Branch Normal College. In 1927, the school severed its ties with the University of Arkansas and became Arkansas Agricultural, Mechanical & Normal College moving to Pine Bluff. -
MIT
MIT declined all women applicants except for Ellen, accepting her as a special student to ascertain women’s ability in the sciences. She was successful at MIT, becoming the nation’s preeminent water scientist even before her graduation. She received her Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry from MIT in 1873. -
Period: to
Lulu Grace Graves
American dietitian, and the first president of the American Dietetic Association. -
Women's Laboratory
Ellen Swallow Richards helped establish the Women's Laboratory at MIT. -
Period: to
Clara Belle Drisdale Williams
Was the first African-American graduate of New Mexico State University. -
Wilbur Olin Atwater
He turned his attention to calorimetry and, with E.B. Rosa, professor of physics at Wesleyan, constructed the Atwater-Rosa calorimeter, which proved the law of conservation of energy in human beings and made it possible to calculate the caloric values of different foods. -
World's Columbian Exposition
The World's Columbian Exposition, also known as the Chicago World's Fair was a world's fair held in Chicago in 1893 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus' arrival in the New World in 1492. The exposition was an influential social and cultural event and had a profound effect on architecture, sanitation, the arts, Chicago's self-image, and American industrial optimism. -
Lake Placid, NY.
Ellen and a small group of women and men met in Lake Placid, NY, and created what became known as the American Home Economics Association. -
The Smith-Lever Act
The Smith-Lever Act established a national Cooperative Extension Service that extended outreach programs through land-grant universities to educate rural Americans about advances in agricultural practices and technology. These advances helped increase American agricultural productivity dramatically throughout the 20th century. -
Lulu Grace Graves
Graves and Lenna Frances Cooper founded the American Dietetic Association, what is now known as the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, for hospital dietitians to meet and discuss the public health and food conservation needs during World War I. Graves holds the distinction of serving as the first President of the Academy. She also was editor of the Dietetics and Institutional Food Service department of Modern Hospital magazine. -
Smith-Huges Act
Smith-Hughes Act, formally National Vocational Education Act, U.S. legislation, adopted in 1917, that provided federal aid to the states for the purpose of promoting precollegiate vocational education in agricultural and industrial trades and in home economics. -
Vocational Education Act
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. Funds were also provided for constructing area schools for vocational education as well as provisions for vocational office education, occupational training for potential school dropouts, and work-study programs. -
Vocational Amendments
The Amendments had a new emphasis; from occupations to people. National and state advisory councils are required. Each state must submit a plan consisting of administrative policies and procedures, and a 5-year program plan. Part of the funds are allocated to permanent programs in cooperative vocational as well as consumer and homemaking education, while the remainder is allocated to the permanent programs of research and training in the area of curriculum development and personnel training. -
Vocational Amendment
Prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability in programs conducted by federal agencies, in programs receiving federal financial assistance, in federal employment and in the employment practices of federal contractors. -
Vocational Amendments
The 1976 Amendments required states receiving federal funding for vocational education to develop and carry out activities and programs to eliminate gender bias, stereotyping, and discrimination in vocational education. The amendments also permit the allocation of federal funds to programs for single heads of households, homemakers, part-time workers seeking full-time jobs, and persons seeking jobs in areas nontraditional for their sex. -
Clara Belle Drisdale Williams
Many of her professors would not allow her inside the classroom, she had to take notes from the hallway; she was also not allowed to walk with her class to get her diploma. In 1980 Williams was awarded an honorary doctorate of laws degree by NMSU, which also apologized for the treatment she was subjected to as a student. -
Carl Perkins Act
Offering young adults the knowledge, skills and resources to support their entry into technical occupations and careers. The law was originally enacted in 1984 and was reauthorized or amended over the following several decades.