Martha Mecartney PAESMEM Award Nomination

玛莎·麦卡特尼博士是加州大学欧文分校的副教授。麦卡特尼博士为K-12学生创建了拓展项目，并为低收入社区的中学教师开发了暑期项目。她广泛参与了加州大学欧文分校加州少数民族参与联盟，并且是研究生教育计划联盟（一个由九个校区组成的联盟）和加州大学欧文分校教授联盟的创始人。这两个项目都是为了让少数族裔和女性进入研究生水平的工程专业。麦卡特尼博士受到赞扬，因为她的努力使少数民族和女性进入教授和工程专业，特别是通过她对本科女性的兴趣和需求的关注。麦卡特尼博士领导的大量项目和服务体现了她创造性的学术领导力和富有洞察力的项目，她倾听少数民族和女性的声音，并受到她们的指导。

Dr. Martha Mecartney is an Associate Professor at the University of California - Irvine. Dr. Mecartney has created outreach programs for K-12 students and developed summer programs for middle school teachers from low-income communities. She has had extensive involvement in the UC Irvine California Alliance for Minority Participation, and was the founder of the Alliance for Graduate Education Program (a nine-campus consortium) and the UC Irvine Fastrack to the Professoriate. Both of these were designed to advance minorities and women into graduate level engineering. Dr. Mecartney is commended for her effort that has led to the mobility of minorities and women into the professoriate and the engineering profession, especially through her attention to the interests and needs of undergraduate women. The sheer volume of programs and services that Dr. Mecartney has led exemplifies her creative academic leadership and insightful programming that listens to and is instructed by the voices of minorities and women.