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The Advent Of University-Level Packaging Scholarship: The Time, The Place And The People, Diana Twede, Laura Bix
The Advent Of University-Level Packaging Scholarship: The Time, The Place And The People, Diana Twede, Laura Bix
Journal of Applied Packaging Research
In 1952, Michigan State College (MSC), now Michigan State University (MSU), was the first university in the world to offer a Bachelor of Science degree in Packaging. Other universities had previously offered related courses like canning (as part of a food science degree) or military packaging (in wartime), but MSU was the first to propose packaging as its own academic field of scholarship.
Other universities followed, sharing faculty and curriculum models developed at MSU. As a result, graduates’ careers in packaging now have a higher professional status, and universities play a key role in developing our international community of packaging …