She taught anatomy, histology, and embryology classes at the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania.

[15] She was also active in the Women's Society of Christian Service,[16][17] and a delegate to the state Republican convention in 1966.

[18] Alice Osborne Curwen married Edward Forster McKeen in 1940.

[24] In 1973, antiques worth thousands of dollars were stolen from her Maine home.

[29][30][31] As recently as 2005, she was included in a list of "illustrious" early comparative neuroanatomists, in an anatomy textbook.