Cora Jipson Beckwith

Cora Jipson Beckwith (24 March 1875 - 9 January 1955) was an American zoologist who was a researcher and professor at Vassar College in New York.

Life Beckwith was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan to William Griswold Beckwith and Maria A. Jipson.

She began her Vassar College teaching career in 1900 after her graduation from Michigan State University. She continued her postgraduate studies while still teaching at Vassar College, gaining an M.A. in biology from Columbia University in New York City in 1908, and her PhD, also from Columbia, in 1914.

Beckwith's teaching career at Vassar College began when she was appointed an assistant professor in 1900. She was later named a full professor and was chair of the zoology department when she retired in 1940. Later she became a Professor Emeritus, known for her teaching of histology, embryology and cytology.

Memberships She was a life member of the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, Massachusetts where "in her younger days she had spent many summers." 1920 Note on a peculiar pancreatic bladder in the cat 1927 The effect of the extirpation of the lens rudiment on the development of the eye in Amblystoma punctatum, with special reference to the choroid fissure