Alice Middleton Boring (simplified Chinese: 博爱理; traditional Chinese: 博愛理; pinyin: bó àilǐ, February 22, 1883 – September 18, 1955) was an American biologist, zoologist, and herpetologist, who taught biology and did research in the United States and China.
Bryn Mawr who was part of the Seven Sisters (colleges) and a was founded by Quakers, further spurred her interest in applying there.
She studied under the geneticist Nettie Stevens, and evolutionary biologist Thomas Hunt Morgan.
[3] In 1904 Boring would publish her first academic work entitled, "Closure of Longitudinally Split Tubularian Stems.
"[4] Boring continued her educational journey at Bryn Mawr College where she would receive her master's degree and her PhD.
[5] During this year of furlough she continued her research at the University of Pennsylvania, where she worked and consulted with Clifford H. Pope and G.K.
[5] On March 25, Boring boarded Japanese trucks that took her and other foreigners to the Weihsien Civilian Assembly Center.
Boring taught histology at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeon until June, 1945.
[5] She returned to the United States, and began taking care of her ill sister.
She returned the following year and work with numerous charities including League of Women Voters, American Friends Service Committee, The Cambridge Civic Association, and American Civil Liberties Union.