Blanche Capel
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Blanche Capel | |
|---|---|
| Occupations | Biologist, Professor |
| Academic background | |
| Education | BA, PhD |
| Alma mater | Hollins College Haverford College University of Pennsylvania |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Duke University |
Blanche Capel is an American biologist and James B. Duke Professor of Cell Biology at Duke University. Her research focuses on vertebrate sex determination.
After graduating with a BA in Literature and Art History from Hollins College, Capel married and focused on raising her children. She became interested in further study by the time her children reached school age and took various undergraduate classes at Haverford and Bryn Mawr College.[1][2]
I remember a day when I had brought a batch of brownies to a fund-raising bake sale, and one of the organizers was giving me detailed instructions on how to cut the brownies. I think that was the moment when I decided I needed to do something else with my time, and soon after, enrolled in a course on molecular genetics offered at Bryn Mawr College.
Following two years in Haverford's molecular biology program, she started to work towards a PhD in genetics at the laboratory of Beatrice Mintz at the Fox Chase Cancer Center. She was awarded her PhD by the University of Pennsylvania in 1989.[3]
