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Cecile Hoover Edwards
Cecile Hoover Edwards (October 26, 1926 – September 17, 2005) was an African American nutritional researcher and Howard University dean whose career focused on improving the nutrition and well-being of disadvantaged people. Her scientific focus was on finding low-cost foods with an optimal amino acid composition, with a special interest in methionine metabolism.
She was cited by the National Council of Negro Women for outstanding contributions to science. She also received three citations from the Illinois House of Representatives for devotion to the cause of eliminating poverty. She was honored by the State of Illinois on April 5, 1984, with the declaration of that day as "Dr. Cecile Hoover Edwards Day".〔〔
== Early life and education ==
Cecile Annette Hoover was born in East Saint Louis, Illinois on October 26, 1926.〔 Her father, Ernest Hoover, managed an insurance company, and her mother, Annie Jordan, was a schoolteacher. She graduated from high school at age 15 and went to Tuskegee Institute, where she graduated in 1946 with a bachelor's degree in nutritional chemistry. She did research on the animal source of protein and received a master's degree in organic chemistry from Tuskegee in 1947, before her twenty-first birthday.〔〔 She received her PhD in nutrition from Iowa State University in 1950, submitting her dissertation on "Utilization of Nitrogen by the Animal Organism: Influence of caloric intake and and methionine supplementation on the protein metabolism of albino rats fed rations low in nitrogen and containing various proportions of fat".〔
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