Individual Award

总统科学、数学和工程卓越导师奖(PAESMEM)表彰杰出的导师努力或计划，这些努力或计划加强了历史上代表性不足的群体在科学、数学和工程领域的参与。胡安·F·阿雷蒂亚是波多黎各大都会大学卓越示范机构(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，该项目展示了成功的战略，可以招收未被充分代表的少数族裔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，Aratia招收了空前数量的拉美裔学生进入STEM领域；增加了STEM专业从一年级到二年级的保留率；并为这些学生提供了全面的职业指导。在他为500多名西班牙裔STEM本科生和1800多名西班牙裔预科学生提供的帮助中，他为他们提供了在美国和国外的暑期研究体验。

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.