Alice Robinson Boise Wood (May 15, 1846 – March 28, 1919) was a classicist and poet, and the first woman both to attend classes at the University of Michigan and to matriculate and graduate from the Old University of Chicago.

[1] Alice Robinson Boise Wood became the first woman to attend the University of Michigan when she joined several Classics classes, including her father's Greek recitations, in September 1866, although she was not allowed to matriculate;[1][2][3][4][5] the first woman to matriculate as a Michigan student was Madelon Stockwell in 1870.

[1][7][8] Boise Wood was one of only eight women inaugural members of the American Philological Association when it was founded in 1869.

[1][3] From 1877 to 1884 she taught Greek, French, and German at the Wayland Academy in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, of which her husband Nathan Eusebius Wood (1849-1937; the couple married in 1873) was Principal.

[1] Boise Wood was also a poet and hymn-writer, publishing in periodicals such as St.