[3] She went on to pursue graduate studies at Mount Holyoke College, where she earned a master's degree in 1940.

"[5] After receiving her master's degree, Griffing initially taught in the Kentucky public schools.

One of her students was Harry Lee Morrison, who would go on to become the first Black physics faculty member at the University of California, Berkeley.

The same year, she also lectured on the "Chemical Effects of Ultrasonics" at the Instituto Nazionale di Ultracustiaca,[9] one of the institutes of Italy's National Research Council.

[10] From 1944 to 1956, during and after World War II, she held a civilian post in the US Navy's Office of Scientific Research and Development, and beginning in 1958, she was a consultant at the U.S. National Bureau of Standards.