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Pringle, Dorothy Jutton (1919 - )
Dorothy Jutton Pringle's career in foods and nutrition at UW lasted an impressive thirty-six years. She completed her BS in 1940 at the University of Illinois. The year after graduation she took a dietetics internship at the University of Michigan Hospital in Ann Arbor. Following the internship and before coming to UW, Pringle worked as a hospital dietitian for eight years at the Cleveland City Hospital in Ohio and then St. Luke's Hospital in Chicago. Following that, she was an independent nutrition consultant in Chicago for two years. At UW she earned her MS in Foods and Nutrition in 1951 and her Ph.D. in 1956, both under the guidance of Helen Parsons. She was Parsons' last student. While working on her advanced degrees, Pringle also taught in the Department of Foods and Nutrition as an instructor and assistant professor, and she later was promoted to full professor. From 1956 until her retirement in 1985, she continued to teach and conduct research, and she participated in outreach activities such as College Week for Women and Farm and Home Week. Pringle strove to ensure that her research was applicable to real life. In addition to her laboratory work on vitamins and carbohydrate metabolism under starvation conditions, Pringle also concerned herself with adequate nutrition education for "at-risk" groups such as low-income families from Milwaukee, rural Northern Wisconsin, Bogota, Colombia, and the rural eastern coast of Nicaragua. One of Pringle's greatest contributions to UW was through her teaching. During her career at UW she educated and advised over three hundred nutrition students, and in 1983 the Alumni Association of the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences awarded her the Advisor Award of Merit for outstanding student advising. Pringle also contributed to the quality of students' education when she developed an Interdepartmental Coordinated Undergraduate Program in Dietetics. Just as Pringle herself believed in the importance of hands-on work, a central aspect of the Program was the integration of clinical experience into the curricula. |
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