The fifth day of the year is known as Carver Day, marking the death and honoring the legacy of George Washington Carver. To some, he’s just the guy who “invented” peanut butter.

By the 1900s, it was still difficult enough to produce that inventor George Washington Carver received a patent for his process. When artist Amanda Williams, LAB’92, stumbled across the obscure patent ...

Installation view of "World Without End: The George Washington Carver Project," 2024–25, at California African American Museum, showing Carver's Prussian Blue (left) and Amanda Williams's Patent ...

Saturday, Feb. 1 is George Washington Carver Day in Iowa, a well-deserved honor for the recipient of the Spingarn Medal, Roosevelt Medal, fellow of the Royal Society in London, and posthumous inductee ...

A 1939 photo of George Washington Carver meeting President Franklin D. Roosevelt during his visit to the Tuskegee Institute. (Getty Images) RECOGNITION. Carver died on Jan. 5, 1943.