COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Includes correspondence with former students and Cornell administrators; her Nigerian diaries (5 volumes, 1959-1960) and manuscript and typescript notes and statistical reports, and pamphlets concerning nutrition and disease in Thailand, Nigeria, and elsewhere; articles by Hauck concerning her work in those countries and general problems of nutrition; photographs of Thai and Nigerian children, showing the effects of malnutrition; her M.A. and Ph.D. theses (University of Washington, 1924; University of Wisconsin, 1932), "A Study of the Cause of Failure of a Specific Ration" and "Manifestations of Fluorine Toxicity"; and notes, syllabi, reading lists, and other material relating to courses she taught at Cornell University.
Dates
- 1924-1960.
Creator
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Hazel Hauck received her Ph.D. in 1932 with a major in nutrition and a minor in medical science from the University of Wisconsin and that same year was hired by Cornell as Assistant Professor. She was promoted to the rank of full Professor in 1936.
She served in the Department of Food and Nutrition in the New York State College of Home Economics for twenty-nine years, and was a member of the faculty of the Graduate School of Nutrition from the time of its establishment in 1941 until her retirement in 1961. She did research in the Cornell-in-Thailand Project, 1952-1953 and in the Village Improvement and Leadership Training Program of the Unitarian Service Committee in Awo Amamma, Eastern Nigeria, 1959-1960.
Extent
2.4 cubic feet. (2.4 cubic feet.)
Abstract
Includes correspondence with former students and Cornell administrators; her Nigerian diaries and manuscript and typescript notes and statistical reports, and pamphlets concerning nutrition and disease in Thailand, Nigeria, and elsewhere; articles by Hauck concerning her work in those countries and general problems of nutrition; photographs of Thai and Nigerian children, showing the effects of malnutrition; her M.A. and Ph.D. theses ; and notes, syllabi, reading lists, and other material relating to courses she taught at Cornell University.
Physical Description
Correspondence, diaries, notes, reports, pamphlets, articles, photographs, theses, and course material.
General
- Contact Information:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
- Compiled by:
- J. Barber
- Date completed:
- May 1964
- EAD encoding:
- Martin Heggestad, May 2004
- Date modified:
- RMC Staff, October 2012
- American Unitarian Association. Unitarian Service Committee. Village Improvement and Leadership Training Program
- College teachers.
- Cornell University. Cornell-in-Thailand Project
- Deficiency diseases -- Nigeria.
- Deficiency diseases -- Thailand.
- Diaries.
- Diseases -- Nigeria.
- Diseases -- Thailand.
- Hauck, Hazel M. (Hazel Marie), 1900-1964
- Hauck, Hazel Marie. (Title of work: Manifestations of fluorine toxicity..)
- Hauck, Hazel Marie. (Title of work: Study of the cause of failure of a specific ration..)
- Malnutrition -- Nigeria.
- Malnutrition -- Thailand.
- Nigeria.
- Nutrition -- Research -- Nigeria.
- Nutrition -- Research -- Thailand.
- Nutritionists.
- Photographs.
- Thailand.
- Women -- Diaries.
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by J. Barber
- Date
- May 2004
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
rareref@cornell.edu