3 Oct 1874 – 10 Oct 1979
Chi Che Wang (王季茝), also known as Wang Chi-Lian, was born in Suzhou, China. She came to the United States during the Chinese Exclusion Act as a member of the first group of women students that the Chinese government ever sent abroad. She is considered the first Chinese woman faculty member in US higher education. Among several other faculty positions, she served as an assistant professor of physiology at Northwestern University.