 At Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), during her senior year, she performed independent research in a research lab.Fraser received her B.S.degree in Biology from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1977 and her Ph.D. degree in Pharmacology at the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1981 with a thesis entitled "Autoantibodies and monoclonal antibodies to ℓgbℓs-adrenergic receptors