M. Helena Noronha
Maria Helena Noronha is a Brazilian and American mathematics educator. She is a professor emerita at California State University, Northridge, where she has chaired the mathematics department and served as the university's associate vice provost for graduate studies, research, and international programs. She is known for founding and directing the Preparing Undergraduates through Mentoring for PhDs (PUMP) initiative across multiple campuses of the California State University system. Her mathematical research has concerned curvature in low-dimensional topology, and she is the author of a textbook on non-Euclidean geometry.