Born in the 1890s, Gladys Branegan-Chalkley, director of the School of Home Economics and professor emeritus at The Ohio State University, pioneered the development and growth of graduate programs in home economics.
Eva Donelson Wilson’s (1905-2007) early research on human milk and its composition was the beginning of her journey into the field of women and children’s health.
Albert Belmont Graham (1868–1960), the first superintendent of Agricultural Extension at The Ohio State University, founded 4-H, a youth development program where young people learn by doing in areas like health, science, agr
In 1878, The Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College formally was renamed The Ohio State University. With that change, the educational emphasis moved towards a liberal arts education rather than strictly agricultural and mechanical arts.
Edmund Secrest (1882-1949) was Ohio’s first state forester and also served as associate director and director of the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station at Wooster.
It has taken 10,000 years of domestication trial and error to create the huge variety of tomatoes found in today’s farmers markets. Until the pioneering work by Esther van der Knaap, associate professor of horticulture and cr