Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Math and Engineering Mentoring

HRD 03-28486Dr.丹顿，目前工程学院院长在华盛顿大学，有着悠久的历史和强大的，全国性的声誉，在传统和同侪指导的学生，并在长期指导计划的发展，包括特殊课程和研讨会。 丹顿的辅导工作涉及到各个层次的学生--从K-12到本科生和研究生。 她还与她的同龄人-妇女和少数民族初级教师，高级教师和管理人员。她一直非常有效地帮助他们在他们的职业生涯中前进，并鼓励他们也成为导师。 她的各种方法也很有效。除了开发程序和动手导师，她已经利用她的研究，出版物和演示文稿，以达到和激励其他导师和潜在的导师在国家一级。丹顿博士有丰富的经验和深刻的承诺，以群体是代表性不足的科学和工程在年龄层次的支持是最大的需要。 她为K-12学生创建了科学和工程项目，并与他们合作开展这些项目;她指导过有色人种大学生和残疾学生，尽管在数量上影响略小于女性。

HRD 03-28486Dr. Denton, currently Dean of Engineering at the University of Washington, has a long history and a strong, national reputation in traditional and peer mentoring of students, and in the development of long-term mentoring programs, including special courses and workshops. Denton's mentoring efforts have involved students at all levels -- from K-12 to undergraduate and graduate students. She also works with her peers -- women and minority junior faculty, senior faculty and administrators. She has been very effective in helping them advance in their careers and in encouraging them to also become mentors. Her diverse methods also have been effective. In addition to developing programs and being a hands-on mentor, she has utilized her research, publications and presentations to reach and inspire other mentors and potential mentors on a national level. Dr. Denton has extensive experience and deep commitment to groups that are underrepresented in science and engineering at age levels at which the need for support is the greatest. She has created science and engineering projects for K-12 students and has worked with them on those projects; she has mentored college students of color as well as students with disabilities, although with slightly less impact, quantitatively, than for women.