Tag: botany

Let’s Make Botany Hip Again, Part 2: Experimenting with Experimenting
November 10, 2016

Let’s Make Botany Hip Again, Part 2: Experimenting with Experimenting

In my previous blog post, I discussed Professor Beal’s pioneering hands-on teaching strategies and his efforts in building the College’s first botanical laboratory. As I delved into research about the botanical laboratory and Beal, it became apparent that the lab was not Beal’s only, or …

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Let’s Make Botany Hip Again: Building Beal’s Botanical Laboratory, Part 1
October 13, 2016

Let’s Make Botany Hip Again: Building Beal’s Botanical Laboratory, Part 1

The tragic fate of Michigan Agricultural College’s first Botanical Laboratory is the stuff of campus lore. Built in 1879, it burned to the ground in March of 1890 when a defective flue—and, legend has it, incompetent graduate students—contributed to a fire in the building’s attic. …

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