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Contributing Institution:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Title: Mary Budd Rowe papers
creator:
Rowe, Mary Budd.
Identifier/Call Number: SC0552
Physical Description:
76 Linear Feet
Date (inclusive): circa 1990-1996
Abstract: Papers include correspondence, reports, proposals, videos, publications, teaching materials, and other items largely pertaining
to science education.
Student files in boxes 1-2 are restricted for 75 years. Boxes 3-46 are open for research use.
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.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Education.
Science -- Study and teaching
Rowe, Mary Budd.
Rowe, Mary Budd.
Stanford University. Graduate School of Education