 Bascom founded the geology department at Bryn Mawr College and encouraged other women to enter the field of geology.Bascom trained and mentored Louise Kingsley, Katherine Fowler Billings, petrologist Anna Jonas Stose, petrologist Eleanora Bliss Knopf, crystallographer Mary Porter, paleontologist Julia Gardner, petroleum geologist Maria Stadnichenko, glacial geomorphologist Ida Ogilvie, Isabel Fothergill Smith, Dorothy Wyckoff, and Anna Heitonen.Bascom's students went on to be successful scientists and some were featured in "American Men of Science."