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Lydia Shattuck: "A Streak of the Modern."
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Shmurak, Carole B.; Handler, Bonnie S. – Teaching Education, 1991
Lydia Shattuck was responsible for the excellence in science instruction at Mount Holyoke Seminary. Shattuck graduated in 1851 and remained there as a faculty member, specializing in chemistry and botany. One of the first women to join scientific societies, she helped enlarge the sphere of women engaged in scientific research. (SM)
Descriptors: Biographies, College Faculty, Equal Education, Excellence in Education
Rigor, Resolve, Religion: Mary Lyon and Science Education.
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Handler, Bonnie S.; Shmurak, Carole B. – Teaching Education, 1991
Mary Lyon was the founder of Mount Holyoke College and a pioneer in science education. She was an early proponent of the laboratory method of teaching, disseminating it throughout nineteenth-century schools. Lyon established a distinguished chemistry faculty and founded an excellent department which has trained many women chemists. (SM)
Descriptors: Biographies, Chemistry, College Faculty, Equal Education