Panoff, Robert M.

Robert "Bob" Panoff shaped the lives of numerous students and educators in Durham through the Shodor Education Foundation, which he founded in 1994.

The following is from his obituary:

In 1994 Dr. Panoff founded the Shodor Education Foundation in Durham, North Carolina, where he served as President and Executive Director for three decades.  Under his leadership, Shodor grew into a nationally recognized resource for advancing math and science education through computational science. With a staff of up to 18, the foundation provided apprenticeships, internships and other programs to more than 2,000 middle school, high school, and college students.  Shodor developed Project Interactive, a collection of over ninety widely used classroom activities, as well as the Computational Science Education Reference Desk (CSERD).   Its interactive models, simulations, and teaching tools reached a global audience of roughly nine million online visitors each month.