Suzan Rose Benedict (November 29, 1873 – April 8, 1942), sometimes spelled Susan Rose Benedict,[1] was the first woman awarded a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Michigan and had a long teaching career at Smith College.

[citation needed] The summers of 1911 through 1913, she resumed her graduate studies at the University of Michigan and in 1913–14 she took a leave of absence from Smith to finish her dissertation directed by Louis Charles Karpinski: “A Comparative Study of the Early Treatises Introducing into Europe the Hindu Art of Reckoning.” She received her PhD in 1914.

[citation needed] Benedict returned to Smith as an associate professor after receiving her PhD.

"[citation needed] In February 1942, she retired as professor emeritus, intending to support the war effort by volunteering with the Red Cross.

From 1918, she shared a home with Susan Miller Rambo, a colleague in the Mathematics Department at Smith College and the second woman to receive a PhD from the University of Michigan.