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Was the first to label nutrition as a science. Founded the Royal Institution to promote useful science.
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This act established federal funding for higher education in every US state.
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A place of higher education that is designated by the state to benefit from the Morrill Act. In Arkansas the University of Arkansas and the University of Arkansas Pine Bluff are land grant universities.
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The founder of AAFCS
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The father of nutrition. He started major food investigations and created the bomb calorimeter.
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An exhibit at the World's fair that showed the connection between science and cooking.
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Began the first school lunch program and was the first woman to attend MIT.
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Conference held to discuss home economics education. "Home economics" was created.
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Cornell professor, she attended the Lake placid conference, and was president of AAFCS.
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This act established extension services connected to land grant universities. This was a way to inform people about new discoveries in agriculture, government, and economic developments.
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The National Vocational Education Act was created to promote education in agriculture, trades and industry, and homemaking.
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Large organization of food and nutrition professionals.
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Home economists became recognized as nutrition experts
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Appointed to serve on President Roosevelt's First Nutritional Congress
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The USDA Bureau of Home Economics changed to the Bureau of Human Nutrition and Home Economics
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This was put in place by congress to offer new vocational education programs.
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This amendment created a more equal opportunities for those of opposing genders people who needed special appropriations.
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These acts aimed to increase the quality of technical training in the US in order to boost the economy.
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Name officially changed to FACS. (Family and consumer science)