Prior to joining Columbia University, Boyce spent twenty-five years as a faculty member at MIT.
Her research has been in theory, computation and experimental elements of the nonlinear, finite deformation, elastic and inelastic, time-dependent behavior of polymeric-based materials.
Models and results from Professor Boyce's group have the potential to influence a range of industrial and academic fields from polymer processing to composite material design, tire mechanics, biological cells and tissues.
Her PhD students and postdoctoral researchers have gone onto faculty positions across the country and the world, as well as to national laboratories, industries and consulting careers.
[8] She has been honored for her teaching at MIT, where she was named a MacVicar Faculty Fellow and received the Joseph Henry Keenan Innovation in Undergraduate Education Award.