Ellen Swallow Richards DVD
CFS alumnus Joyce Beery Miles, CFCS retired, has written and produced a DVD that chronicles the life and achievements of Ellen Swallow Richards, a remarkable woman of the 19th century.
She was the first woman to enter the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a student and the first woman professor at MIT. She believed that science served an applied purpose to improve the quality of life for all, and she worked to teach others the "art of right living." She spent most of her life working to open doors for women in education and became a world-renowned expert in water quality testing as well as providing much of the first writing on nutrition in the 1900s.
She worked tirelessly to elevate the discipline of home economics to a standardized, systemized, and professional discipline, and she founded the American Home Economics Association in 1909.
Proceeds from the sale of the DVD benefit the AAFCS Centennial Fund.