[3] Wells spent another year in Dresden, Germany, where she studied the German language and music.

In 1916, she earned her Master of Arts degree from Carleton College in Minnesota, where her field of study was astronomy.

[1] After completing her dissertation under the Detroit Observatory's Director Ralph Hamilton Curtiss on A Study of the Relative Proper Motions and Radial Velocities of Stars in the Pleiades Group, she received her Ph.D. in astronomy from the University of Michigan in 1924.

In 1924, she became a member of the Indiana Academy of Science,[5] and that year also began to teach astronomy courses.

[10] Alongside her numerous avocations and activities, other hobbies she enjoyed included motoring and travel.

[11] Under Wells' authority, the National Woman's Party fought for a revision of the Nineteenth Constitutional Amendment.

[10] In her acceptance speech as the new chairman of the National Woman's party in 1949, she described how astounded she was by the idea that few people knew about the past century's legislation that deemed women as “not persons” and, therefore, not entitled to the same rights as men.

It now stands among other accomplished women leaders in the National Woman's Party Fine Art Collection in Washington, D.C.[12] She lived with a woman named Lydia Woodbridge, a teacher at Indiana University, who was identified as Well's partner in Bloomington, Indiana.

[17][18] Wells, Agnes E. A Study of the Relative Proper Motions and Radial Velocities of Stars in the Pleiades Group, University of Michigan, 1924.