UC Noyce Initiative Beginning in 2019, The Robert N. Noyce Trust and Bower's own separate property trust, began making donations to the University of California system to launch the UC Noyce Initiative to honor the legacies of Bowers and Noyce. The initiative brings together five UC campuses—Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, San Francisco and Santa Barbara—by supporting collaborative research projects focused on using digital innovation to advance the public good. One of the multi-campus research initiatives to come out of the UC Noyce Initiative funding is a brain imaging consortium named the Ann S. Bowers Women’s Brain Health Initiative (see page 29). This project now includes researchers from Cornell, Stanford among others - all of whom are working on advancing the study of women's brain health through deeply collaborative science. They are integrating research activities across campuses and bringing together world-class expertise in neuroimaging, computer science/artificial intelligence and healthcare with the hope of expanding our knowledge of the female brain, especially as it relates to Alzheimer’s disease and dementia, the latter of which afflicted Bowers during her final years.
Ann Bowers and Smudge
“I believe strongly that Ann Bowers would be proud of this work,” said Katrina Stevens, president and CEO of the Tech Interactive, which is a partner of the Bowers WBHI and UC Noyce Initiative. “She always believed that we should get great minds together to be able to change the world and I believe that this work is going to do exactly that, especially for women.” ◆
“We look at philanthropy the way VC’s look at their investment opportunities. We use the same criteria a VC would: leadership first, idea second, and a well-conceived plan to carry out the idea third.” -- Ann S. Bowers
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