Domestic Science and Human Nutrition
OSU lab dresses. Dr. Eloise Green's lab dress is on left.
The Agricultural Student, a publication of The Ohio State University, November 1964.
The Ohio State Human Nutrition program currently offers four Bachelor's degrees, two Master's degrees and one PhD. Nutrition was originally integrated as part of the Domestic Science and later Home Economics program. Included in the exhibition were two lab dresses, which were worn to nutrition classes. The dress on view on the left was worn by Dr. Eloise Green, an instructor in Foods/Nutrition lab classes from 1950-1965. The lab dress on the right was worn by Eileen Karg Wagner, who received her Bachelor of Science in Home Economics Education in 1966.
Included below, is a gallery of images from OSU archives which depict Human Nutrition courses over the last 150 years.
First Home Economics cooking class, 1896. Image courtesy of OSU Archives.
Home Economics food lab, 1908. Image courtesy of OSU Archives.
Home Economics practice kitchen, 1922. Image courtesy of OSU Archives.
Home Economics kitchen equipment, 1949. Image courtesy of OSU Archives.
Home Economics cooking class, 1953. Image courtesy of OSU Archives.