In 1928, the sword symbol of the Americal Cancer Society (ASCC) came from a 1928 nationwide poster contest…
In 1928, Dr. Eaton MacKay was invited from Stanford University to become the first director of research at…
In 1928, the University of Iowa College of Pharmacy Drug Service was formed and began manufacturing a wide…
In 1928, The University of Oregon Medical School takes over operation of Doernbecher Hospital. Frank Doernbecher was a…
On Feb. 19, 1927, the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) completed its first licensing agreement with the Quaker…
In 1927, The Danforth Foundation was a private, independent foundation established in 1927 by William H. Danforth founder…
In 1926, The University of Oregon established a five-year program leading to a degree in nursing. The following…
In 1926, Doernbecher Memorial Hospital for Children was built on the Marquam Hill campus and becomes the first…
In 1926, Dr. William Branch Porter was named the first full-time professor of medicine at the Medical College…
On Nov. 14, 1925, the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents filed the charter for the Wisconsin Alumni…
On Jun. 22, 1925, the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents officially established the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation…
In 1925, The Medical College of Virginia pharmacy curriculum extended to three years.
In 1924, Leo Rigler was appointed associate professor of radiology at the University of Minnesota. Rigler obtained full…
In 1921, the Alberta Research Council (ARC), was founded by a provincial government Order-in-Council as the Scientific and…
In 1920’s, Oregon State University (OSU) professor of horticulture Ernest H. Wiegand developed the modern method of manufacturing…
On Oct. 28, 1918, after Chicago influenza case tallies had declined, many bans were removed to that music,…
On Sept. 21, 1918, between the start of Chicago’s epidemic and the removal of restrictions on Nov. 16,…
In 1918, Innis Steinmetz, became the first woman to enter the medical school, and 30 years later, the…
In 1917, the state wide Children’s Development and Rehabilitation Center Service Program was established in the University of…
In 1916, the National Research Council (NRC) was created under the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) charter by…
In 1914, Yale University received an endowment from the Anna M. R. Lauder family to establish a chair…
In 1914, at Harvard Medical School, Paul Dudley White introduced the electrocardiograph to the U.S. The original electrocardiograph…
In 1914, University of Minnesota president Dr. George E. Vincent approached Drs. William and Charles Mayo to form…
On May 22, 1913, The American Society for the Control of Cancer was created at a meeting of…
In 1913, a group of volunteers, spurred by compassion to help those afflicted with tuberculosis, established the Jewish…
In 1913, the South Carolina General Assembly approved state ownership of the College, appropriating the grand sum of…
In 1913, the Medical College of Virginia became the first in the country to expand the medical school…
On Sept. 23, 1912, the William Marsh Rice Institute (Rice University) opened its doors on the anniversary date…
On Mar. 2, 1912, the Arkansas Children’s Home Society, an orphanage for the underprivileged children of Arkansas, was…
In 1910, the first agricultural engineering degree in the world was granted at Iowa State University. J. Brownlee…