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Call Number: SC0552
Creator:
Rowe, Mary Budd.
Title: Mary Budd Rowe papers
Dates: circa 1990-1996
Physical Description:
76 Linear feet
Summary: Papers include correspondence, reports, proposals, videos,
publications, teaching materials, and other items largely pertaining to science
education.
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Stanford University Libraries
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: speccollref@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/spc/spc.html
Access: collection is unprocessed; please consult the University Archivist for
access.
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials
must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections and University
Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California 94304-6064. Consent is
given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not
intended to include or imply permission from the copyright owner. Such permission
must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s) or assigns. See:
http://library.stanford.edu/depts/spc/pubserv/permissions.html.
Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of
digital files is restricted to research and educational purposes.
Mary Budd Rowe Papers (SC0552). Department of Special Collections and University
Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
Rowe earned a bachelor's degree in biology and physics education from New Jersey State
University in 1947, a master's in zoology from the University of California-Berkeley in
1954 and a doctorate in science education from Stanford in 1964. She taught at Columbia
and the University of Florida and was a visiting professor at Stanford's School of
Education from 1990 until her death in 1996. Rowe, an innovator in the use of technology
to teach science concepts, headed the science education research division of the
National Science Foundation from 1976 to 1980 and was part of the first science
education delegation to the People's Republic of China in 1979.
Papers include correspondence, reports, proposals, videos, publications, teaching
materials, and other items largely pertaining to science education.
Rowe, Mary Budd.
Stanford University--Faculty.
Stanford University. School of Education.
Education
Science --Study and teaching.