[1] After graduating from Thomas Jefferson High School in Denver,[1] she attended Harvard University where she worked with Darby L. Winn on the Harvard-Wisconsin-Purdue proton decay experiment.
[3] After earning her Ph.D., Cohn was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton from 1988 until 1991, when she joined the Fermilab Particle Theory Group as a research associate until 1993.
[6] She has also worked on analytic methods for baryon oscillations, strong gravitational lensing analyses of systems, and issues related to analyzing cluster correlation functions.
[3] Between 1989 and 1991, Cohn maintained an electronic mailing list for sharing theoretical physics preprints or "e-prints" for an informal group of string theorists.
[7] At a chance encounter at the Aspen Center for Physics in the summer of 1991, Paul Ginsparg, then at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, asked Cohn why she had yet to automate her email list.