Bryn Mawr College on Monday named a new residence hall that also will serve as its Black Cultural Center after Enid Cook, the college’s first African-American alumna. Cook, a 1931 graduate who majored in chemistry and biology, was denied on-campus housing and lived off campus with a local family. After earning her doctorate from the University of Chicago, she became a lecturer in that school’s department of medicine and later served as the chief of the public health laboratory and a professor of microbiology at the University of Panama. She died in 1989.
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