She was a professor emerita at California State University, Los Angeles.
[4] She completed a doctorate at the Claremont Graduate School with the 1969 dissertation Teaching Physics for Scientific Literacy.
[5] She served as associate dean of academic planning for undergraduate studies for over five years, from 1970 to 1975, before returning to physics teaching and research.
[2] Stahl was a 1999 honoree in the California State University, Los Angeles Distinguished Women Awards.
[9] She was also a Fellow of the American Association of Physics Teachers,[4] which in 2006 awarded her its Homer L. Dodge Citation for Distinguished Service.