Alice Middleton Boring

Alice Middleton Boring (, 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 Alice's upbringing. Boring attended the Friends' Central School, a coeducational school where she excelled in the sciences. In 1904 Boring would publish her first academic work entitled, "Closure of Longitudinally Split Tubularian Stems." Boring continued her educational journey at Bryn Mawr College where she would receive her master's degree and her PhD. 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. 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 to 1913 and then as an associate professor from 1913 to 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 Women's suffrage.

Boring's work was interrupted during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Despite the occupation of Beijing by the Japanese, Boring continued to teach. 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.