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460 BCE
Birth of Hippocrates
Hippocrates was a Greek physician who was nicknamed "The Father of Medicine." Hippocrates realized that food affects a persons health. -
Dr. James Lind
Dr. James Lind was a British navy physician who observed that sailors were developing scurvy and linked it to their diet which consisted of nonperishable foods like bread and meat. -
The Concept of Metabolism
Antoine Lavoisier, the “Father of Nutrition and Chemistry,” discovered the transfer of food and oxygen into heat and water in the body. -
Birth of Ellen Swallow Richards
Founder of Home Economics and the first female admitted in to MIT -
Morrill Act
The Morrill Act provided grants of land to states to finance the establishment of colleges specializing in agriculture. -
W.O. Atwater Graduates from Yale with PhD
Atwater was known as a pioneer in the study of nutrition and metabolism. Atwater went on to invent the calorimeter with Edward Bennett Rosa. -
Caroline Hunt
Appointed as the first professor of home economics at the University of Wisconsin -
AAFCS Founded
The American Association of Family and Consumer Science was founded at Lake Placid with Ellen Swallow Richards and other men and women. -
E.V. McCollum
E.V. McCollum was a U.S. Department of Agriculture researcher at the University of Wisconsin, began using rats instead of humans in his experiments. He found the first fat-soluble vitamin, Vitamin A. He also found that rats were healthier when fed butter instead of lard, as it contains more Vitamin A. -
Smith-Lever Act
Established a nation-wide Cooperative Extension Service that extended outreach programs through land-grant universities to educate rural Americans about advances in agricultural practices and technology. -
Founding of Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
The largest organization of food and nutrition professionals founded in Cleveland, Ohio. A group of women interested in helping the government conserve food and improve the health and nutrition of individuals during World War I. -
Smith Hughes Act
This act provided money to the states for the purpose of promoting pre-collegiate vocational education in agricultural and industrial trades and in home economics. -
Betty Lamp
The American Home Economics Association adopted the Betty Lamp as the symbol for the association. This was derived from the German word "besser" meaning "to make better." -
Death of Martha Rensselaer
Martha Van Rensselaer was a founding co-director of the College of Home Economics. -
Vocational Education Act of 1963
This act required all states to write out detailed reports and plans for how they would spend federal education funds. -
Vocational Amendment of 1968 & 1973
The Vocational Education Amendments of 1968 extend the work of the 1963 amendments, but the main idea changed from occupations to people. -
Vocational Amendment of 1976
The purpose of the 1976 act was to extend, improve and maintain current programs, overcome sex discrimination/bias, and develop new programs -
Name Change
American Home Economics Association changed their name is what is now known as Family and Consumer Sciences. -
Carl D. Perkins Act
Act which supports the improvement of career and technical education in high schools and postsecondary institutions through basic state grants and other programs. -
Arkansas Land Grant Universities
The University of Arkansas and The University of Arkansas - Pine Bluff are the two land grant universities in Arkansas
