At Wellesley College, Whiting instructed several notable astronomers and physicists, including Annie Jump Cannon.

[2] Through attending Pickering's classes, Whiting observed the techniques of teaching science through laboratory work, which was then new to the United States.

The advanced students in physics of those days will always remember the zeal with which Miss Whiting immediately set up an old Crookes tube and the delight when she actually obtained some of the first photographs taken in this country of coins within a purse and bones within the flesh.

[5]In addition to Cannon, Whiting was also assisted or attended in the X-ray experiments by Mabel Augusta Chase and Grace Evangeline Davis.

[1] In these experiments, they played with the variables in the established set up to improve image quality and learn how x-rays could penetrate different materials.

[6] She was an author of several articles in Popular Astronomy, including: Whiting also wrote an obituary for Margaret Lindsay Huggins and reminiscences of William Thomson.