Foster, Marjorie Greene, 1892-1919.

Foster earned her BA (1914) and MA (1915) at Stanford University in Chemistry; while there she helped start Alchemia, the women's chemistry honor society, and was elected to the Cap and Gown Society and Sigma Xi. She pursued her doctorate at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1916 to 1919.

Biographical Note

Marjorie Greene Foster earned her bachelor's and master's degrees in Chemistry at Stanford, 1914 and 1915 respectively. While at Stanford she helped found Alchemia, the women's Chemistry honor society, and was elected to the Cap and Gown Society and Sigma Xi. She began her doctoral work at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1916, holding the George Williams Hooper Fellowship at the Hooper Foundation for Medical Research. She died in 1919 from influenza; her doctorate was awarded posthumously.