Lois Lund received her PhD from the University of Minnesota with food research as her major course of study. After serving as Assistant Director at the School of Home Economics at the University of Minnesota and serving as Associate Dean in the College of Agriculture and Home Economics at Ohio State University, Lund came to MSU in 1973 as the Dean of the College of Human Ecology. During her tenure she: increased student enrollment, research funding for the faculty, and endowments; established graduate and undergraduate advisory councils; created a human ecology library; significantly increased the number of college faculty who were recognized nationally and internationally; developed Interaction 75 which introduced new concepts of human ecology to businessmen, educators, and public servants; developed the first external human ecology master’s degrees in Okinawa, Japan; created a survey of colleges relative to racial and sex employment patterns in home economics and human ecology; established the College Research Initiation Grant Program which provided start-up money to faculty for research; created the first MSU collegiate micro-computer lab for classroom use; and established the College of Human Ecology Distinguished Lecture Series. Lund served as dean of the college until 1985. From 1985 to 1996 she was a professor of Food Science and Human Nutrition where she established a functional undergraduate major stressing both food science and business. Lund retired from MSU in 1996. Topics/people covered in the interview include: Agricultural Experiment Station Program; James Anderson; Dorothy Arata; Norma Bobbitt; Elise & Ken Boulding; John Cantlon; Shirley Chisholm; College Research Initiation Grants; domestic science; Gourman Study; interdisciplinarity; domestic science/economy; home economics; human ecology; Industrial Revolution; homemakers; child development; Cooperative Extension; College of Human Ecology; consumer behavior; nutrition; food research; Interaction 75; Family and Child Ecology Department; Institute for Children, Youth, & Families; Bob Keesham; Land Grant Institution Act; Mary Lewis; Richard Lewis; Cecil Mackey; first home economics curriculum; women admitted to MSU; MSU Administrative Internship Program; Ohio State University; Daryl Rogers; Smith-Hughes Act of 1918; Smith-Leaper Act; University of Minnesota; Clifton Wharton
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