#emma p carr

The namesake of Carr Laboratories, Emma P. Carr was a pioneer in her field and the first recipient of the prestigious Garvan Medal, which was created in 1937 to honor outstanding women chemists. However, even the best of professors may experience issues in teaching and as one 1932 student notes in her biography, Make It Beer, “evidently [Professor Carr] was a wonderful research person but she did not know how to communicate her knowledge.” Of the three hundred students in her lecture that year, the student explains, one hundred and fifty failed.

Emma Perry Carr ::  Mount Holyoke Archives and Special Collections Digital Images :: circa 1935-1948