Individual Award

总统卓越科学、数学和工程指导奖（PAESMEM）表彰杰出的指导工作或项目，这些指导工作或项目增强了历史上未被充分代表的科学、数学和工程群体的参与。Juan F. Arratia是波多黎各大都会大学卓越模范机构（MIE）项目的主任和首席研究员。MIE是由美国国家科学基金会（NSF）和美国国家航空航天局（NASA）资助的一个项目，在过去的11年里，它已经展示了成功的策略，招募代表性不足的少数民族学生进入科学和工程领域，并支持他们成功完成科学学位。在大都会大学（unisidad Metropolitana），阿拉蒂亚（Arratia）招募了数量空前的西班牙裔学生进入STEM领域；从大一到大二增加了STEM专业的保留率；给这些学生提供全面的职业建议。他已经为500多名西班牙裔本科STEM学生和1800多名大学预科西班牙裔学生提供了帮助，其中包括为他们提供在美国和国外的暑期研究经历。

The Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM) recognizes outstanding mentoring efforts or programs that enhance the participation of historically underrepresented groups in science, mathematics, and engineering.Juan F. Arratia, is director and principal investigator for the Model Institutions for Excellence (MIE) project at Universidad Metropolitana (Puerto Rico). MIE is a program funded by NSF and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which, over the past 11 years, has demonstrated successful strategies for recruiting underrepresented minority students to science and engineering fields and supporting their successful completion of science degrees. At Universidad Metropolitana, Arratia has recruited unprecedented numbers of Hispanic students into STEM fields; increased the retention of STEM majors from the freshman to sophomore year; and given these students comprehensive career advising. Among the help he has provided to more than 500 undergraduate Hispanic STEM students and more than 1800 pre-college Hispanic students is providing them with summer research experiences in the U.S. and abroad.