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Thompson is recognized for inventing the first range stove with temperature controls. He was also the first to label nutrition as a science. Lastly, the Rumford kitchen at the 1893 Chicago World Fair was named for him. -
Catharine Beecher contributes to domestic science by writing the Treatise on Domestic Economy -
Welch taught home economics to women at Iowa State College, which is believed to be the first person in the United States that taught home economics to college students. -
Atwater was an American chemist knew for his studies of human nutrition and metabolism. He invented the Bomb Calorimeter and is considered the “Father of Nutrition." -
The First Morrill Act is passed, providing federal lands to the states to be sold to support colleges of agriculture and mechanical arts.
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Morrill was serving in the House of Representatives and set aside federal lands to create colleges with the “benefit of the agricultural and mechanical arts.” This allowed each state with 30,000 acres of western land. -
Rensselaer was a founding co-director of the College of Home Economics. -
The University of Arkansas at Fayetteville was established first then the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff in 1890. -
Graves was the first president of the Academy of Nutrition
and Dietetics. She was dedicated to helping the government conserve food and improve the health and nutrition of the public and nutrition during World War I. -
Williams was the first African American woman to graduate from New Mexico State University. She became an educator after graduating from college. -
Nutritious lunches sold at the 1894 Chicago World’s Fair that included nutritive value and cost per serving. Richards had scientifically prepared foods for the World’s Fair. -
Eleven leaders gathered in New York to begin the profession of
Home Economics. -
This act was established as a National Cooperative Extension Service that extended outreach programs through land-grant universities to help educate rural Americans about advances in agricultural practices and technology. -
This act promoted precollegiate vocational education in agricultural and industrial trades and in home economics. -
The Vocational Education Act provided grants to states to maintain, improve, and develop vocational-technical education programs. -
The Vocational Amendment provided new programs for vocational education. Also provided part-time employment for the youth to receive earnings to continue vocational training. -
The Rehabilitation Act is the federal law that authorizes the formula grant programs for vocational rehabilitation, supported employment, independent living, and client assistance. -
This amendment required states to receive federal funds for vocational education to develop and carry out activities. Also, programs to eliminate gender bias, stereotyping, and discrimination in vocational education. -
This act increases the quality of technical education within the United States in order to help the economy. -
American Home Economics Association voted to change the name of the profession to Family and Consumer Sciences. -
The birthday of AAFCS Founder, Ellen Richards. This day is known as "Dine in Day."