In 2002, the name of the Department of Nutrition and Foodservice Systems was officially changed to the Department of Nutrition. Department Heads: Rosemary Wander (2002, continuing from Department of Nutrition and Foodservice Systems) Deborah Kipp (2003-2011) J. Lee Beverly (2012-2014) Ron F. Morrison (2015-2024) Lauren A. Haldeman (2024- )
In 1998 the name of the Department of Food, Nutrition, and Food Service Management was changed to Nutrition and Foodservice Systems, consequently changing the previous Food and Nutrition Major to the Nutrition and Foodservice Systems Major. In 2002 the department and major name was shortened to Nutrition. Department Heads: Mark L…. Continue reading…
The Department of Food, Nutrition, and Food Service Management was formed in the School of Home Economics (later known as The School of Human Environmental Sciences and now part of the School of Health and Human Sciences). In 1975 the School of Home Economics created six specialized departments, one of which was… Continue reading…
A native of Flint, Michigan, Richard “Dick” Sher was born on January 21, 1939 and obtained his mathematics degrees from The Michigan College of Mining and Technology (now Michigan Technological University) in 1960. After one year of graduate work at the University of Utah, he served for two years in… Continue reading…
Born in Oneida, Tennessee on 25 January 1921, Eldon Eugene “Gene” Posey received his B.S. in Mathematics from East Tennessee State before obtaining his Master’s and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Tennessee. While enrolled at East Tennessee State, Posey left college and signed up as a Cadet in the… Continue reading…
Helen Barton was born in Baltimore, Maryland on August 9, 1891. She attended Goucher College (Woman’s College of Baltimore until 1910) and graduated in 1913. The year after her graduation, Helen Barton served as an assistant in physics at Goucher and the following year did graduate work in mathematics and physics at… Continue reading…
Born in Atlanta on April 17, 1919, Dr. Anne Lewis was educated at the Randolph-Macon Women’s College (A.B., 1940), receiving her Master’s (1941) and Doctoral (1943) degrees at the University of Chicago. Dr. Lewis began her tenure as an instructor at the Woman’s College Department of Mathematics in 1945, and served… Continue reading…
Katherine Henrietta Taylor was born on March 19, 1909, in Salisbury, North Carolina. She graduated from the North Carolina College for Women (now UNCG) in 1928 and was one of two alumnae elected to membership in the Alpha Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, a national honorary scholastic fraternity. Taylor received her… Continue reading…
Joseph Allen Bryant Jr. was born on November 26, 1919 in Glasgow, Kentucky. He was married with two children, Joseph Allen III and Garnett Woodruff. Bryant received his bachelors at West Kentucky Teachers College in 1940, his masters at Vanderbilt University in 1941, and his doctorate at Yale University in… Continue reading…
Peter H. Taylor was born on January 8, 1917 in Trenton, Tennessee. He attended Southwestern in Memphis for one year, Vanderbilt for one year, and Kenyon College for two years, finally receiving his bachelors degree in 1940. Taylor was drafted into the Army in the spring of 1941 as Sergeant;… Continue reading…
