 Briscoe was elected a fellow of the American Institute of Chemists and the New York Academy of Sciences and in 1997 received the Wilbur L. Cross Medal from the Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.Briscoe was also active as an advocate for women in the sciences; she was a founding member of the Association for Women in Science for which she served as president between 1974 and 1976, and published a number of books on women, feminism, and science.Briscoe represented the Association for Women in Science in testifying in favour of a "women in science" bill in 1979.