[1] After working as an associate professor and division chair at Oklahoma Baptist University from 1979 to 1991, Dr. Ogilvie returned to the University of Oklahoma as the Curator of the History of Science Collections.

After her retirement in 2008, a fellowship for graduate studies in the History of Science was established in her name.

[1] Dr. Ogilvie's books reflect her interest in the history of women in science.

In addition to biographical dictionaries, she has written biographies of biologist Alice Middleton Boring, physicist and chemist Marie Curie, astronomer Caroline Herschel and ornithologist Margaret Morse Nice.

In 1998, her book Women in Science: Antiquity through the Nineteenth Century was listed in the American Library Association Outstanding Reference Sources.