Betty Delores Stough became the first woman to earn a PhD at the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College (parasitology)
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In 1953, Betty Delores Stough became the first woman to earn a Ph.D. at the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College. The degree was in parasitology.
By 1972, when Virginia Tech celebrated its centennial, however, less than 2 percent of the Ph.D. degrees awarded by the institution had gone to women.
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Source: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
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