Alice Schafer, as she was to become, had been awarded an M.S. by Chicago and continued to study there for her doctorate under E P Lane. Under Lane she studied projective differential geometry and submitted her dissertation on Singularities of Space Curves.
Alice Schafer, na siya ay maging, had been iginawad ng isang MS sa pamamagitan ng Chicago at patuloy na pag-aaral doon para sa kanyang mga titulo ng doktor sa ilalim ng Ep Lane. Lane siya sa ilalim ng aral ng projective kaugalian geometry at naisumite ang kanyang disertasyon sa Singularities ng Space kurva.