The Morrill Mandate and a New Moral Mandate

CAROLYN B. BROOKS received her BS and MS degrees in biology from Tuskegee University and a PhD in microbiology from Ohio State University. She joined the University of Maryland Eastern Shore in 1981 and served as a professor, department chair, dean of the School of Agricultural and Natural Sciences, Agricultural Experiment Station director, executive assistant to the president, and chief of staff. Since July 2007 she has served as the executive director of the Association of 1890 Research Directors. Brooks has received numerous awards, including the George Washington Carver Public Service Hall of Fame Award, the ESS Excellence in Leadership Award, the American Society for Microbiology William A. Hinton Award, and many others.

ALAN I MARCUS is professor and head of the department of history at Mississippi State University. He has edited two volumes on the history of land-grants, Science as Service: Establishing and Reformulating American Land-Grant Universities, 1865–1930 (forthcoming fall 2015) and Service as Mandate: Land-Grant Universities and the Making of the Modern World, 1920–2015 (forthcoming spring 2016). He has also edited a special issue on Mississippi State University for the Journal of Mississippi History, scheduled for late 2015. He has recently completed a monograph tentatively entitled, “Death By Analogy: The World's First War on Cancer and Creation of the Modern Cancer Research Establishment, 1875–1915.”