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Benjamin Thompson, better known as Count Rumford was an American-born British physical scientist who was the first to label nutrition as a science, and created the first cooking range with temperature controls.
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Catharine Beecher managed to get an education primarily through independent study, and she became a schoolteacher in 1821. In 1823, she co-founded the innovative Hartford Female Seminary, whose purpose was to train women to be mothers and teachers. In 1829, she published a seminal essay on the importance of women as teachers, "Suggestions Respecting Improvements in Education."
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Born in Dunstable, Massachusetts, Ellen Richards was the first woman admitted to MIT, and is one of the founders of the FACS profession.
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Considered to be the “Father of Nutrition”, who also created the bomb calorimeter that is still used today to measure the caloric content of food. Had a PhD in Chemistry from Yale University.
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Named for its sponsor, Vermont Congressman Justin Smith Morrill, it granted each state 30,000 acres for each of its congressional seats which most states used to create colleges.
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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. Kansas was the first state to take advantage of the land grant program with the establishment of Kansas State University in 1863, followed by Iowa which established State Agricultural College in 1864.
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Although Martha Van Rensselaer grew up in modest circumstances in Randolph, New York, her mother's active involvement in the suffrage and temperance movements convinced her that women could effect change in American life. Due to the success of female extension work, in l908 Cornell decided to offer full-time home economics courses and offered Rensselaer a position. From l914 to l916, Van Rensselaer served as president of the American Home Economics Association and was also president of AAFCS.
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Probably the greatest nutrition researcher of the twentieth century was Dr. Weston A. Price (1870-1948), a dentist who was raised on a farm in Canada.6 With his wife, Florence, he traveled the world studying diets of indigenous peoples and recorded the effect of their diets on their dental, physical and mental health.
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Includes University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
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Discovered Vitamin D together, and found that rickets was caused by Vitamin D deficiency. Also discovered a cure for early tooth decay.
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Discovered Vitamin K and was awarded a Nobel Prize in 1943.
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11 leaders gathered in Lake Placid, New York to form a new field of study they named "Home Economics".
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Nutritionist who promoted a healthy diet , and one of the first to recommend supplements.
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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.
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As a kid, LaLanne was what some would consider feeble. But he gave up eating junk food when he was 15 years old, read up on anatomy, and started working out with weights. Six years later, he opened a combination gym, health food store, and juice bar-at the time, putting him firmly on the fringe.
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Smith-Hughes Act, formally National Vocational Education Act, U.S. legislation that provided federal aid to the states for the purpose of promoting precollegiate vocational education in agricultural and industrial trades and in home economics.
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The federal government has supported vocational education programs since 1917 when the Smith-Hughes Act was passed to help schools train workers for the country's rapidly growing economy. The Vocational Education Act of 1963 expanded the role of vocational education and funding was substantially increased.
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Vocational Education Amendments of 1968 (Public Law 90-576) modified existing programs and provided for a National Advisory Council on Vocational Education and collection and dissemination of information for programs administered by the Commissioner of Education.
1973 Amendment an act to replace the vocational rehabilitation act, to extend and revise the authorization of grants to states with special emphasis on services to those with the most severe handicaps. -
The 1976 Amendments to the Vocational Equity Act of 1963, 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.
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The Vocational Education Act of 1984, often referred to as the Carl D. Perkins Act or the Perkins Act, authorizes federal funds to support vocational education programs. One of the goals for the Perkins Act is to improve the access of either those who have been underserved in the past or those who have greater-than-average educational needs.
