Education and Research
Wanda received a bachelor's degree in biology from Ohio University at Athens and a master's degree studying Botany at Columbia university around 1919. After graduating from Columbia she taught at Kansas State University and Texas A&M University.
Around 1928, after marrying botanist Clifford Farr, Wanda Farr postponed enrolling in a Ph.D. program in order to move with her husband to Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. There, Wanda Farr began working as a researcher under Dr. Montrose Burrows at the Barnard Skin and Cancer Clinic, and her husband began working as an assistant professor in botany at the same university. Wanda performed microscopy on live animal and plant cell cultures.
In February 1928, Clifford Farr died and Wanda Farr was asked by Washington University to teach his classes. Wanda began research related to her late husband's work studying the growth of root hairs in plants.
Within a few years, Wanda Farr was hired by the U.S. Department of Agriculture as a cotton technologist on the strength of her previous root hair research. She moved to the Boyce Thompson Institute laboratory in Yonkers, New York. After approximately ten years of research, she was appointed as Director of the Cellulose Laboratory of the Chemical Foundation at the same institute, until she was called to the laboratories of the American Cyanimide Company to do World War II war-related research.
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