I have a recollection about a session at an ESA meeting dealing with history of ecology that discussed her.
________________________________ From: Ecological Society of America: grants, jobs, news <ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU> on behalf of John Anderson <jander...@coa.edu> Sent: Sunday, April 2, 2017 3:45:30 PM To: ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU Subject: Re: [ECOLOG-L] America's first female ecologist Ellen Swallow Rocks. She was also the creator of Human Ecology, which is the only degree that we give in my home institution, College of the Atlantic, though she moved it more into the direction of Home Economics, in which form it is still I believe taught at Cornell. (she not only went to MIT, but was I believe the first female faculty member at MIT) There is a great book about her by Robert Clarke: Ellen Swallow: The woman who founded Ecology... Thanks for sharing!! On Sun, Apr 2, 2017 at 12:07 PM, David Inouye <ino...@umd.edu<mailto:ino...@umd.edu>> wrote: This is an interesting article about a woman I hadn't heard of before, Ellen Swallow Richards, who was also the first female student at MIT. http://nautil.us/issue/46/balance/the-woman-who-gave-us-the-science-of-normal-life -- Dr. David W. Inouye Professor Emeritus Department of Biology University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742-4415 ino...@umd.edu<mailto:ino...@umd.edu> Principal Investigator Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory PO Box 519 Crested Butte, CO 81224 -- John Anderson W.H. Drury Professor of Ecology/Natural History College of the Atlantic 105 Eden St Bar Harbor ME 04609
