Chemistry Department Records 1890-present

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Chemistry Department Records 1890-present

Consist of reports, correspondence, minutes and agenda, course records, research records, subject files, questionnaires, records concerning programs and events, historical sketches, brochures, announcements, lists, films, lantern slides, glass slides, and photographs documenting the Department's history, administration and activities from 1890 to the present.

65 boxes; (37 linear ft.)

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SNAC Resource ID: 6322050

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Cotter, William Donald.

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Mount Holyoke College. Women in Science Program.

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Mount Holyoke College. Chemistry Dept.

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National Science Foundation (U.S.)

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Council on Undergraduate Research (U.S.)

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American chemical society

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Campbell, Mary K.

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Mount Holyoke College. Chemistry Department

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Courses in chemistry have been taught at Mount Holyoke since the school opened in 1837. Mary Lyon, Mount Holyoke's founder, was the first chemistry teacher. She also invited faculty from other colleges and universities to give lectures on the subject and sought to provide students with laboratory experience. Botany teacher Lydia W. Shattuck (Class of 1851) also taught chemistry classes and solicited funds for a new chemistry and physics building constructed in 1892 and named in her ...

Decatur, Sean.

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Browne, Sheila E.

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Weaver, Edwin S.

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Sherrill, Mary La Jean Davis

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Mount Holyoke College. Senior Science Symposium.

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Mount Holyoke College. Lucy W. Pickett Lecture.

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Mount Holyoke College. Newcomb Cleveland Hall.

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Williamson, Kenneth L.

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Carr, Emma P. (Emma Perry), 1880-1972

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Emma Perry Carr was born on July 23, 1880 in Holmesville, Ohio, to Edmund and Anna Carr. She attended Ohio State University from 1898 until 1899, and then came to Mount Holyoke College. She attended Mount Holyoke from 1900 until 1902, and later received a B.S. and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1905 and 1910, respectively. She then began teaching chemistry at Mount Holyoke. She became Chair of the Chemistry Department in 1913. In 1937, Carr became the first woman to be awarded the Fra...

Five Colleges, Inc.

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Mount Holyoke College.

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The first official publication of Mount Holyoke Female Seminary was a catalogue issued in 1837 containing information about trustees, teachers, terms of admission, the course of study, the schedule for the year, Family Accommodations, and the Moral and Religious Influence at the school. Subsequent catalogues (with periodic updates) trace the growth of the institution and provide detailed information about the academic program and residential life for students at the College. These publications h...

Mount Holyoke College. Carr Laboratory.

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Pickett, Lucy W., 1905-1997

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Harrison, Anna J.

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Anna Jane Harrison was born on December 23, 1912 in Benton City, Missouri to farmers Albert Harrison and Mary Katherine Jones Harrison. She became interested in science while attending high school in Mexico, Missouri and went to the University of Missouri where she received a B.A. (1933), M.A. (1937), and Ph.D. (1940) in chemistry and a B.S. (1935) in education. While working towards her Master's Degree, she also taught at an elementary school in Andrain County, Missouri. She was a chemistry pro...