[1] She worked as a sensory scientist in the Experiment Station, Step VIII, served for 35 years at the University of California, Davis.
[1] She co-founded the Association for Chemoreception Sciences (ACHEMS), and the Sensory Reception Scholarship Fund (SSSF).
[2] At the IFT Annual Meeting (Institute of Food Technologists), the Sensory and Consumer Sciences Division has oral presentation graduate student competition which has been named in Pangborn's honor.
[7] In 1978, Pangborn co-founded with Maxwell M. Mozel, Linda Bartoshuk, and Gary Beauchamp, the Association for Chemoreception Sciences (ACHEMS), an international professional society.
Recent Pangborn Symposiums have been held in Rio de Janeiro, Gothenburg, Providence, and Edinburgh.