[1] Weeks graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a physics degree from Wellesley College in 1916, where she was also an active member of the Shakespeare society.

[6] In 1924 she obtained a second master's degree, from the Prince School of Business at Simmons College, and became an employment supervisor for Jordan Marsh, the Boston department store.

[1][3] Following completion of graduate studies, Weeks developed and led the physics department at Wilson College in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, from 1930 to 1956.

Weeks left Wilson on sabbatical from 1943 to 1945, when she worked as a technical aide at the Office of Scientific Research and Development.

[1] While at Wilson in the 1940s, Weeks organized six summer sessions in which undergraduate women traveled to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to work with George R. Harrison in the spectroscopy laboratory on compiling wavelength tables.