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Gladys E. Vail and Helen E. Clark Two brilliant researchers in foods and nutrition came to Purdue University in the mid-1950s. They were scientists who happened to be women in a man’s world. Gladys E. Vail and Helen E. Clark worked together at Kansas State University before arriving at Purdue. Vail led the foods and nutrition department at Kansas State, and Clark was an assistant professor of foods and nutrition. The two women began their lifelong friendship there. After Vail came to the Purdue campus as head of the University’s Foods and Nutrition Department (now the Department of Nutrition Science), she invited Clark to also join the Purdue faculty. Clark moved to West Lafayette in 1954, and the two women elevated foods and nutrition science at Purdue to a new level.

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