Description
- Abstract:
- In this interview, Elizabeth Leduc recounts her educational background from undergraduate studies in biology at the University of Vermont, to obtaining her master's degree from Wellesley College, getting her PhD at Brown University, and completing a fellowship at Brown through the National Institute of Health. She frequently mentions the assistance she received during her PhD program from J. Walter Wilson. She mentions her position as an anatomy professor at Harvard Medical School and the struggle for scientists to receive tenured positions. Leduc spends most of the interview discussing her time at Brown as a tenured biology professor and as dean of biological sciences. She remembers professors Herman Chase, Newell Stultz, and Pierre Galletti, in addition to President Donald Honig and Deans Margaret Shove Morriss and Rosemary Pierrel. She also recalls the effects of the Pembroke-Brown merger and the Lamphere case. Leduc emphasizes apparent female equality in the field of biology throughout the interview.
- Notes:
- Class year: 1948
- Biographical note: Elizabeth Leduc was born in Rockland, Maine and grew up primarily in northern Vermont. She graduated from the University of Vermont in 1943 with a B.S. in biology. She went on to receive an M.S. from Wellesley College and a Ph.D. from Brown University in 1948, both in biology. She maintained a National Institute of Health postdoctoral fellowship at Brown until 1949 and then taught anatomy at Harvard Medical School until 1953 when she returned to Brown. In 1964 she became a tenured Professor of Biology and served as Dean of Biological Sciences from 1973-1977. During that time, Leduc was appointed to the President's Committee on Science and Technology by Gerald Ford. Her research interest was in the cell biology of the liver. She died on January 30, 2010.
Citation
"Elizabeth Hortense Leduc, class of 1948"
(1988).
Pembroke Center Oral History Collection.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:712478/
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Elizabeth Hortense Leduc, class of 1948 Part 1
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Elizabeth Hortense Leduc, class of 1948 Part 2
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Elizabeth Hortense Leduc, class of 1948 Part 2
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Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
This collection contains oral history interviews with alumnae of Brown University, which admitted its first women students in 1891. The Women's College at Brown was renamed Pembroke College in 1928, and in 1971, Pembroke College merged with the Men's College …...