[3] In college, she started as a math major and did a summer research experience at Argonne National Laboratory.

[5] From 1975 to 1976, she worked on Atmosphere Explorer data as a National Research Council fellow at Marshall Space Flight Center.

[8] What I like most about my job is the fact that when you discover or figure something out, for that time you are the ONLY one in the world who knows that!Reiff started graduate school at Rice University in 1971 and immediately learned the computer programming needed to work on data from the Charged Particle Lunar Environment Experiment (CPLEE).

[3] She develops software that is disseminated to public education groups and these programs have been seen by over a million visitors at 15 museums,[10] and she is particularly focused on people in under-served communities in the American southwest.

[3][10] At the Houston Museum of Science, she worked with Carolyn Sumners on digital shows within planetariums,[2] educational experiences that were ultimately spun off into two commercial ventures.

[10] Reiff also engages the public with real-time space weather alerts that provided predictions about aurora viewing.