Pendred Noyce MD

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Biography

Dr. Pendred Noyce serves as Chairwoman of the Board at Libra Foundation. She serves as a Board Member at the GULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE. She Co-Founded and served as a Trustee at Noyce Foundation. She also serves as Chairwoman of the Board of Trustees at Libra Foundation. In 1991, She became a founding trustee of the Noyce Foundation, which supports K-12 mathematics and science education across the U.S. For nine years she also helped lead a statewide, NSF-funded effort to improve mathematics, science, and technology education in Massachusetts. Currently, she serves on the Massachusetts Board of Elementary and Secondary Education. She is a past trustee of Radcliffe College and a past board member of the Concord Consortium, TERC, the Gulf of Maine Research Institute, and the Center for Engineering Education Outreach at Tufts University. She is an advisory member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Public Outreach Committee. Currently, she also serves as a board member of the Irving Foundation and the Consortium for Mathematics and its Applications (COMAP), as well as board chair for the Rennie Center for Education Research and Policy and the Libra Foundation. She edited a volume titled New Frontiers in Formative Assessment from Harvard Education Press. She is the author or co-author of seven novels for children ages 9-12, including Lost in Lexicon and The Ice Castle from Scarletta Press and five books in the Galactic Academy of Science series from Tumblehome Learning. Her most recent book is Magnificent Minds: Sixteen Pioneering Women in Science and Medicine. As co-founder of Tumblehome Learning, which publishes science mystery and adventure stories for young people, She serves as Tumblehome's editor and chair.