[1] She is credited with conducting the most comprehensive study to date of the Hemigrammus genus of fish[2] of which she named nineteen taxa.
degree in 1909 from Indiana University where she was a member of Delta Gamma sorority, and Sigma Xi honorary society.
[6][8] After graduating from IU, the family moved to Boulder, Colorado where she worked with Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell.
[10][11] In 1925, she moved with her husband to Fairport, Iowa where they worked at the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries lab and studied mussel reproduction.
[12] In 1930, Cockerell used her as one of two examples in an article in Nature about how the scientific community needed to fix citations for women who publish work before and after a name change.