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Pat Reiff is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, where she serves on the SPA Public Education Committee. In 2009, she received the AGU "Athelstan Spilhaus Award" and in 2013 she won the "SPARC" Award (Space Physics and Astronomy Richard Carrington Award) for service in public education. She is the Rice University representative and former Chair of the Council of Institutions of the USRA - the Universities Space Research Association. She has served on advisory committees for NASA, NSF, NCAR, Los Alamos National Laboratory, NAS/NRC and AAU.

In 2018, she won two lifetime achievement awards (in both cases, the inaugural presentation of the award). The "Marjorie Corcoran Award" from Rice University which honors the memory of Physics professor Marj Corcoran, whose mentoring of teachers and underserved students is the basis of the award. The second major award is the "STEM Influencer Award" from the Women's Energy Network, and also is in honor of educating women in STEM careers.

2021: She was named to the "Order of the Round Table" (outstanding alumna of Northwest Classen High School, OKC)
2022: She was named an "Outstanding Alumna" of the College of Arts and Sciences, Oklahoma State University
She received a special recognition from the "SPACALUMNI" at their 60th reunion in September 2022.
2023: She received the "Excellence in Outreach" Award from the Wiess School of Natural Science, Rice University.

She has received NASA "Group Achievement Awards" for her work on the IMAGE and Cluster Missions, and recognition from ESA for her work with the Cluster mission