In the Media

WBUR host Robin Young speaks with Danielle Dreilinger, author of “The Secret History of Home Economics,” which spotlights alumna Ellen Swallow Richards, the first woman to attend MIT and the institute’s first female instructor.  “Ellen Swallow Richards was an amazing woman… and she was devoted to science in the public interest… and she turned her attention to helping everyday women in the home,” says Dreilinger.