Flora Rose
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- Scientist
- nutritionist
- professor of Home Economics
Flora Rose | |
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.jpg) Flora Rose c. 1916 | |
| Born | October 13, 1874 |
| Died | July 25, 1959 (aged 84) |
| Alma mater | Kansas State Agricultural College |
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| Employer | Cornell University |
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Flora Rose (October 13, 1874 – July 25, 1959) was an American scientist, nutritionist,[1] and co-director of what would become New York State College of Human Ecology.[2] Rose, along with Martha Van Rensselaer, was named the first full-time female professor at Cornell University.[3]
Rose graduated with her BA from Kansas State Agricultural College. After her graduation, she wrote letters to Stanford University and Cornell University proposing they initiate a home economics program.[4] Cornell accepted her proposal and hired her to begin the burgeoning home economics department alongside Martha Van Rensselaer.[4] She and Martha Van Rensselaer were often “collectively referred to as Miss Van Rose” and they lived together from 1908 til 1932 when Van Rensselaer died; they were equal partners in their work, taking an academic, scholarly approach to the matters of personal and family life.[5]
Aside from her obligations to Cornell, Rose held the position of deputy director of the Food Conservation Bureau of the New York State Food Commission. In this position she aided in leading research and development of production of cereals that were low-cost and vitamin-enriched.[4]
