[1][5][7] She would also regularly advocate for and acquire updated department equipment and household appliances (e.g., "steam heating, the elevator, the artesian well") for the school.

[1][5] Her efforts established connections between scientists at Mount Holyoke College and the broader scientific community, as she was able to secure "various distinguished visiting professors" for the school.

[2] Shattuck and founder Mary Lyon are considered "the two guiding forces in science" during the first fifty years of the school's history.

[...] since this is a scientific age and we are bound to keep abreast of the times; since every college has its own particular individuality — let us press onward in these lines till we obtain full recognition among the colleges of New England, claiming the right to confer degrees whenever it can be shown that our pupils have done as much and as good work as other colleges require for the same degrees.Shattuck worked with Arnold Henri Guyot and Louis Agassiz at the Anderson School of Natural History on Penikese Island, an experimental residential summer school that provided women with postbaccalaureate education when it was not a formal option for them.

[1] Henrietta Hooker, who succeeded her as head of the botany department, campaigned successfully for a planned science building to be named in her honor.

She was a naturalist to whom it was easy, in those field excursions on which she led us, to give us charming glimpses of the food for thought and study in the rocks, clouds, and living creatures, which were as much the subjects of her talks as the plants we sought.Two buildings on campus have been named after her: the first, which housed the chemistry and physics departments, was opened in 1892 then torn down in 1954; the second was opened as the New Physics Building in 1932 and renamed Shattuck Hall after the first was torn down.