In 1891, the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College’s first master of science degree was awarded to Charles N….
On Nov. 14, 1888, the Pasteur Institute was established as a rabies treatment center as well as an…
In 1887, The University of Oregon chartered a state medical school in Portland and begins the University of…
On Oct 13, 1885, the Georgia School of Technology (Georgia Institute of Technology) opened its doors. The School’s…
On Sept. 15, 1883, the University of Texas at Austin opened with one building, eight professors, one proctor,…
In 1883, Dr. Harvey W. Wiley becomes chief chemist, expanding the Bureau of Chemistry’s food adulteration studies. Campaigning…
On Apr. 3, 1882, Eastern Washington University (EWU) was founded. Originally named Benjamin P. Cheney Academy for the…
On Mar. 24, 1882, German scientist Robert Koch announced to the Berlin Physiological Society that he had discovered…
In 1882, William Halsted performed the surgery that bears his name, and the modern era in the surgical…
On Apr. 3, 1879, John B. Hamilton began service as Supervising Surgeon (later known as U.S. Surgeon General),…
In 1876, the University of Colorado (CU), and includes three unique campuses — Boulder, Colorado Springs, and the…
On Oct. 1, 1872, the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College (Virginia Tech) was founded. The Virginia Polytechnic Institute…
In 1872, the New York Skin and Cancer Hospital was founded as the first hospital in America devoted…
In 1871, Florence Sabin became the first woman to serve as a faculty member at Johns Hopkins. became…
In 1870, Dr. Susan Smith McKinney Steward was the first African-American woman to ever earn a medical degree…
In 1868, Wayne State University was founded by five physicians who witnessed the crude medical treatment on Civil…
In 1867, the medical college for women at the New York Infirmary for Women and Children was founded….
In 1866, John Langdon Down, a British doctor, described what is now known as “Down syndrome” named after…
On Jan. 27, 1864, William Worrall Mayo opened a medical practice in Rochester, Minnesota. He had been directed…
On Nov. 24, 1859, British naturalist Charles Darwin published “On the Origin of Species’ which explained the theory…
On Jan. 20, 1858, Corvallis academy (Oregon State University) was founded and maintained by the Methodist Episcopal Church,…
In 1857, Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, her sister, Dr. Emily Blackwell, and Dr. Marie Zakrzewska founded the New York…
On Feb. 12, 1855, Gov. Kinsley S. Bingham signed into law an act for the establishment of the…
On Jan. 6, 1853, Florida Governor Thomas Brown signed a bill that provided public support to higher education,…
In 1852, Adolphe Chatin, a French chemist, was the first to publish the hypothesis of population iodine deficiency…
On Jan. 24, 1851, the West Florida Seminary (Florida State University) was founded by the Florida General Assembly…
On Sept. 20, 1848, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) was founded which marked the…
In 1840, German scientist Dr. Jacob von Heine conducted the first systematic investigation of polio and developed the…
On Oct. 2, 1836, British naturalist Charles Darwin returned to England from the voyage of the “Beagle.” Darwin,…
On Dec. 27, 1831, naturalist Charles Darwin departed England on the British science expedition voyage of the “Beagle”…