Presidential Awards for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM)

玛丽·l·索法匹兹堡大学教授索法在亲自指导研究生方面非常成功。在索法教授的16名博士研究生中，50%是女性。在她的硕士生中，有24名（53%）是女性，1名是非裔美国人，1名身体残疾。她目前指导六名博士生，其中包括两名女性。她的学员中有一位瑞典女性，她是瑞典第一位获得计算机科学博士学位的女性。她的毕业生中有11人获得了著名的博士预科奖学金，2人是正教授，3人是副教授，2人是助理教授，1人获得了NSF青年研究员奖。在担任研究生院院长期间，她实施了一项创新计划，招收代表性不足的学生，使他们的人数在四年内增加了100%。

Mary L. SoffaUniversity of PittsburghProf. Soffa has been highly successful in personally mentoring graduate students. Of Prof. Soffa's sixteen graduated Ph.D. students, 50% are women. Of her master's degree students, twenty-four (53%) are women, one is African American, and one is physically disabled. She currently advises six doctoral students including two women. Among her mentees is a Swedish female that was the first woman to receive a doctorate in computer science in Sweden. Among her graduates, eleven have received prestigious pre-doctoral fellowships, two are full professors, three are associate professors, two are assistant professors, and one has received the NSF Young Investigator Award. While serving as Dean of Graduate Studies, she implemented an innovative program to recruit underrepresented students that increased their number by 100% in four years.