text: Morse has a B.A. from Denison University (1962), and an M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. During her Ph.D. she worked on Lewis acids. Morse joined the faculty of Utah State University in 1968 in the department of chemistry and biochemistry, and subsequently became the department head, the dean, and was named provost in 1989. In 1993 she moved to Western Washington University where she was president until 2008. In 2014, Morse was named the Bowman Distinguished Professor at Western Washington University.
  Morse's early research centered on the production and properties of phosphines. She also worked on borohydrides, phosphite, metal-phosphorus compounds, aryl phosphines Morse also led the professional training committee at the American Chemical Society where she expanded on options for recognizing educators who teach chemistry at the undergraduate and high school level.