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What was the name of the employer Alice Middleton Boring work for from 1918 to 1920?
Alice Middleton Boring Alice Middleton Boring ( 博爱理 , February 22 , 1883 – September 18 , 1955 ) was an American biologist , zoologist , and herpetologist , who taught biology and did research in the United States and China . Early life and education . Alice Middleton Boring was born in 1883 in Philadelphia . Her family originally settled in the Americas in the 17th century . Her relatives were involved in the Moravian Church , which would greatly influence Alices upbringing . Boring attended the Friends Central School , a coeducational school where she excelled in the sciences . After graduation Boring enrolled at Bryn Mawr College , where her sister had graduated in 1896 . Bryn Mawr who was part of the Seven Sisters ( colleges ) and a was founded by Quakers , further spurred her interest in applying there . She started her freshman year in 1900 . She studied under the geneticist Nettie Stevens , and evolutionary Biologist Thomas Hunt Morgan . Morgan and Boring would co-write an article on frog embryos . In 1904 Boring would publish her first academic work entitled , Closure of Longitudinally Split Tubularia Stems . Boring continued her educational journey at Bryn Mawr College where she would receive her Masters degree and her PhD . Boring continued to work with Stevens throughout her graduate studies where they both focused on the study of Flatworms . Boring attended University of Pennsylvania for less than a year where she studied under Edwin Conklin , however she decided to continue her studies at Bryn Mawr after Conklin left . Before her graduation from Bryn Mawr College , Boring taught biology for a year at Vassar College . In 1907 Boring attended University of Würzburg and Naples Zoological Station . While in Europe Boring would study under Theodor Boveri and Anton Dohrn . After studying in Italy and Germany , Boring graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1910 . She taught at University of Maine as an instructor for 1911 , an assistant professor from 1911-1913 and then as an associate professor from 1913-1918 . While at University of Maine , Boring collaborated and worked with Raymond Pearl , and co-authored numerous papers with him , including a paper on Ascaris . She also collaborated with Pearl and co-author papers on Fowl . Boring was a supporter of Womens suffrage . In 1918 she was appointed an assistant professor of biology at Peking Union Medical College ; her appointment came from the Rockefeller Foundation . Boring taught at Peking Union Medical College for two years before returning to teach zoology at Wellesley College . Disappointed after returning to the United States , Boring worked hard to return to China . Through Wellesley she accepted a two year teaching post at Peking University , which would later be known as Yenching University . After her initial two years were up she stayed at the university . Boring took furlough from 1928-1929 , and returned home during a rise of nationalist tensions in China . During this year of furlough she continued her research at the University of Pennsylvania , where she worked and consulted with Clifford H . Pope and G.K . Noble . In 1930 she became the acting dean of the College of Natural Sciences . Between 1930-1950 Boring published 21 papers in Peking Natural History Bulletin Boring taught a plethora of students who went on to have prestigious careers , including Wu Jieping , Tang Xi Xue , Laurence T . Wu , Frederick F . Kao . Boring’s work was interrupted during the Second Sino-Japanese War . Despite the occupation of Beijing by the Japanese , Boring continued to teach . She also continued to publish research with Pope and continued to work on the taxonomy of Chinese amphibians . She specifically studied the Bufo bufo , and the Rana nigrolineata , which led her to publish numerous journal articles . After Pearl Harbor things drastically changed for Boring . She was forced to move to a compound foreign faculty . In March 1942 she and her foreign faculty were forced to leave the university . On March 25 , Boring boarded Japanese trucks that took her and other foreigners to the Weihsien Civilian Assembly Center . On August 24 , Boring was repatriated back to the United States . Boring taught histology at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeon until June , 1945 . She then taught as a visiting professor at Mount Holyoke College as a visiting professor of Zoology . Boring returned to Yenching University in 1946 when it was safe for foreigners to return . However she found herself in the middle of the Chinese Civil War . In 1950 Boring left China for the last time . She returned to the United States , and began taking care of her ill sister . In 1951–1953 Boring taught at Smith College . She returned the following year and work with numerous charities including League of Women Voters , American Friends Service Committee , The Cambridge Civic Association , and American Civil Liberties Union . She was diagnosed with Cerebral arteriovenous malformation . She died on September 18 , 1955 from a suspected Cerebral thrombosis . Bibliography . - Handbook of North China Amphibians and Reptiles ( 1932 ) with Cheng-chao Liu and Shu-ch’un Chou - Survey of Chinese Amphibia ( 1940 ) with Clifford Hillhouse Pope - Chinese Amphibians : Living and Fossil Forms ( 1945 ) Further reading . - Kraig Adler ( 1989 ) . Contributions to the History of Herpetology , Society for the study of amphibians and reptiles : 202 p .