The Bruce Medal of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific is named after her, as well as the asteroid 323 Brucia, and the crater Bruce on the Moon.
Med letoma 1889 in 1899 je Observatoriju Harvardovega kolidža, Observatoriju Yerkes in Deželnemu observatoriju Heidelberg-Königstuhl, (tedaj ga je vodil Max Wolf), podarila denarna sredstva za nakup daljnogledov.