Texas Woman's University

Texas’s growing postwar economy and built a national reputation for its programs and research in textiles, food, and nutrition, awarding its first doctoral degrees in 1953. In 1950, it developed the first nationally accredited nursing program in the state, opening at the original Parkland Hospital in downtown Dallas in 1954, and joining the Oak Ridge Institute for Nuclear Studies in the 1960s, receiving a series of research grants from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to study the health effects on humans of space flights. In 1956, it established Texas’s first building dedicated solely to the instruction of library sciences. Finally, in 1957, the school changed its name to "Texas Woman's University" and expanded its health sciences programs to a campus in Houston in 1960.
The college also enjoyed a close relationship with Texas A&M University in College Station in the early and mid-20th century. As the only gender segregated public colleges in Texas at the time, the schools generated considerable …