Early Education
Marie was educated at Hunter College High School. This school is an all-female institution where her dream to become a chemist was supported and encouraged. She attended Queens College in Flushing, New York. In 1942 she graduated with a bachelor's degree in chemistry. The college then offered her a fellowship to attend graduate school in chemistry at New York University while working part-time as a laboratory assistant at Queens College. In just one year she completed her master's degree.
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Further Education
Marie enrolled in the doctoral program at Columbia University after working for a year tutoring chemistry students at Queens College. She was awarded her doctoral degree in 1947, only three years after enrolling in the program. She was the first African American woman to obtain a Ph.D. in chemistry in the United States. After completing her doctoral degree, Daly taught for two years at Howard University in Washington, D.C. Then Daly took a new position teaching biochemistry at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University. In 1960 she became a professor at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, where she remained until her retirement in 1986. |
