School Days

Feeling nostalgic at the start of the school year? Several new college histories offer a trip down memory lane.

Kristen A. Yarmey, Labors and Legacies: The Chemists of Penn State, 1855–1947. State College, PA: Pennsylvania State University Department of Chemistry, 2006. 216 pp. $19.95.

This history of chemistry at Penn State highlights the school’s well-known scholars, including Evan Pugh, an agricultural chemist and the university’s first president.

Mickey C. Smith, editor, Pharmacy Education at the University of Mississippi: Sketches, Highlights, and Memories. Binghamton, NY: Pharmaceutical Products Press, 2006. 309 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $34.95.

“Ole Miss” celebrates a century of pharmacy education with an edited volume that looks back at both the high and low points of its history.

Manfred Kroger, Trends in Food Science: History at Penn State. Lancaster, PA: DEStech
Publications, 2006. 334 pp. $39.95.

This chronicle of food science at the Agricultural Experiment Station at Penn State details
changes in academia and politics that led the school to establish its department of food
science in the 1970s.

Dorothy Schwieder; Gretchen van Houten; editors, A Sesquicentennial History of Iowa State University: Tradition and Transformation. Ames, IA: Iowa State University Press, 2007. 368 pp. $49.99.

Focusing primarily on the years 1940 to 2000, this book is a comprehensive look at the last 150 years of politics, culture, academia, sports, and campus life at Iowa State.

David Pantalony; Richard L. Kremer; Francis J. Manasek, Study, Measure, Experiment: Stories of Scientific Instruments at Dartmouth College. Norwich, VT: Terra Nova Press, 2005. 271 pp. $65.

More than 50 items from Dartmouth College’s collection of scientific instruments are examined through the historical and social context in which they were created and used.