[4] She was active in the university senate, chaired a budget simplification task force, and served as the school's NCAA faculty representative.
[2] Her primary focus was reactions of alcohols with silver and bromine salts, and she supervised numerous graduate students, more than half of whom were women.
She worked closely with her AU colleague, mathematician Mary Gray to improve resources for women and minorities in mathematics and science and prevent them from dropping classes.
[6] From 1976 to 1981, she administered a National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded reentry program to retrain women with degrees in chemistry or biology who had previously been discouraged from pursuing careers in those fields.
[2] She also looked to the present and future of women in chemistry, analyzing statistics on disparities in training, retention, and compensation of female scientists.
[10] She compiled a 1990 ACS survey evaluating salaries of members and women's perceptions and satisfaction with their employment situation and opportunities for advancement.
[12] She was one of six chemists to receive the $10,000 grant award that year, which was presented by President Bill Clinton at a White House ceremony.