Mary Shore Walker (1882–1952) was the first woman faculty member at the University of Missouri, and taught in the department of Mathematics.
was titled, "On finite groups with special reference to Klein’s ikosaeder.”[1] While at the University of Missouri, she studied with Earle Hedrick, Oliver Dimon Kellogg, and W. D. A.
[3] She obtained leaves and started her graduate work at Yale University in 1907,[3] and received her PhD in mathematics there in 1909.
"[2] While at Yale, she met Albert Wallace Hull, a PhD candidate in Physics and her future spouse.
[1] Once she earned her PhD, she returned to the University of Missouri and continued to teach there as an instructor in Mathematics.