Center for Antiracist Research<\/a>. The Public Scholarship Shop will forge relationships between the Center\u2019s scholars and the media, with the goal of making scholarly writing and research accessible to a broad audience. Faculty will be trained in pitching stories to reputable public-facing media outlets and connecting with editors, producers, and literary agents, so their pathbreaking antiracism work can be disseminated beyond the academy and into the public sphere. <\/p>\nPenny\u2019s educational philanthropy dates back to her founding of the Noyce Foundation, created by her family in 1990 to honor the memory and legacy of her father, Silicon Valley pioneer Dr. Robert N. Noyce\u2014co-founder of Intel and inventor of the integrated circuit, which fueled the personal computer revolution. One of the foundation\u2019s priorities was to build the field of after-school science through research, advocacy, and capacity-building, so that many more children can have fun and inspiring experiences in science and engineering programs outside of school.<\/p>\n
Penny has carried on the Noyce Foundation\u2019s legacy as editorial director of Tumblehome Learning, which she created to immerse children in STEM education with books that combine science and literature. Tumblehome has since expanded its offerings to include workshops and learning materials, and it has recently launched a new program, Get Ready for AI: Artificial Intelligence Education for K\u201312. <\/p>\n
Leo, too, is dedicated to bringing a love of science to children. Since 2003, he has served as a trustee of the Museum of Science, and he chaired the task force for conceptualizing the museum\u2019s Hall of Human Life, an interdisciplinary exhibition of human biology and medicine that opened in 2013. <\/p>\n
Penny and Leo learned about the Center through their shared admiration of its founder and director, Dr. Ibram X. Kendi. Among his many accomplishments, Dr. Kendi is the best-selling author of Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America<\/em>, which won the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 2016. He is also the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at BU.<\/p>\nAt the Center, Dr. Kendi established the COVID Racial Data Tracker, which was the nation\u2019s premier source of racial and ethnic demographic data as a means of understanding the outbreak among those hardest hit by the pandemic, people of color. Penny used data from the Tracker in a recent book she wrote for middle schoolers that focuses on the COVID pandemic. <\/p>\n
She eventually became aware of the Center\u2019s Narrative Office, home of the Public Scholarship Shop and of The Emancipator<\/em>. A digital reimagining of America\u2019s first abolitionist newspaper, this Center-initiated collaboration with The Boston Globe<\/em>\u2019s opinion team provides a new and vibrant platform for antiracist scholarship and opinion pieces. <\/p>\n\u201cLike many other people, we have been shocked and concerned at the resurgence of overt racism in this country,\u201d Penny says. \u201cMy hope is that the shop will find ways to bring knowledge and understanding to people in ways they can hear, without being overly dogmatic.\u201d <\/p>\n
She is keen that the Public Scholarship Shop will help raise a generation of scholars and journalists who excel at communicating complex research and scholarship to the public.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll of us who have benefited from growing up in a free and multicultural society have a responsibility to try and nurture that,\u201d says Penny. \u201cScholarship and clear communication will allow that to continue into the coming\u2014and very challenging\u2014century.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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In an era of widespread misinformation, Pendred (Penny) Noyce, MD, and her husband, Leo X. Liu, MD, believe that the rigorous critical thinking essential to science is key to preserving a free and multicultural society. <\/p>\n