Monumental Women Project
Fourth-year UChicago students Asya Akca (left) and Oluwaseyi “Shae” Omonijo, co-founders of the Monumental Women Project, at the unveiling of a bronze bust of Georgiana Rose Simpson in the Reynolds Club. (Photo by: Beth Rooney)
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Monumental Women Project
Fourth-year UChicago students Asya Akca (left) and Oluwaseyi “Shae” Omonijo, co-founders of the Monumental Women Project, at the unveiling of a bronze bust of Georgiana Rose Simpson in the Reynolds Club. (Photo by: Beth Rooney)

Ceremony unveils bronze bust of pioneering alumna Georgiana Simpson

CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—December 15, 2017

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By: Tracey Robinson-English

The late Georgiana Rose Simpson, who in 1921 became the first African-American woman to earn a PhD from the University of Chicago and one of…

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