 She wrote three editions of a widely adopted textbook, "Genetics".She served as president of The American Society for Cell Biology in 1984-85, was elected to the Cellular and Developmental Biology section of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009, and elected a Fellow of the American Society for Microbiology in 2013.Since 2013, Goodenough has been listed on the Advisory Council of the National Center for Science Education.