Individual Nomination

杰克逊州立大学LESZCZYNSKI博士在职业生涯早期就认识到，成功的指导是有效研究项目不可或缺的一部分。制定策略，不仅要吸引学生，而且要留住学生，这对他和学生的需求都很重要。他领导了杰克逊州立大学计算化学系的扩张。博士项目成立了，莱什琴斯基博士领导了正式和非正式指导项目的发展。目前，Leszczynski博士领导着一个国际公认的计算化学系，并为博士候选人提供了参加国际实验室的机会。Leszczynski培养和促进了计算化学领域中代表性不足的学生，这是一个STEM领域，目前很少有这样的学生参与。在八年的时间里，Leszczynski博士开发了许多正式的项目和指导技术，导致非洲裔美国人和女性学生接受计算化学方法培训的人数增加。在此期间，该系的博士课程得到了发展，并已发展到约50名学生，其中50%以上是非洲裔美国人。其中7名学生已经完成了博士论文答辩，另有10名学生直接接受他的指导。他还开发了一个暑期学院项目，为110名学生和10名教师提供服务，其中大部分来自hbcu。他开发了两个系列会议，吸引了2000多名与会者到JSU，其中包括四位诺贝尔奖获得者。Leszczynski博士的活动激发了本科生在科学领域追求研究生教育的兴趣。在杰克逊的HBCU机构Tougaloo学院和圣胡安的大都会大学（unisidad Metropolitana）之间开展了研究合作和本科生培训。Leszczynski博士小组的三名博士生被选中参加在德国林道举行的诺贝尔奖获得者会议。

JERZY R. LESZCZYNSKI Jackson State University Dr. Leszczynski recognized early in his career that successful mentoring was integral to an effective research program. Developing a strategy to not only attract, but retain students was important to his and student needs. He led the expansion of the Computational Chemistry Department at Jackson State University. The Ph.D. program was created and Dr. Leszczynski led the development of formal and informal mentoring programs. Currently, Dr. Leszczynski leads an internationally recognized Computational Chemistry Department and has provided opportunities for Ph.D. candidates to participate in international labs.Dr. Leszczynski has developed and promoted underrepresented students in Computational Chemistry, an area of STEM where very few such students currently participate. Over an eight year period, Dr. Leszczynski developed a number of formal programs and mentoring techniques that resulted in increase of African American and female students trained in computational chemistry methods. During this time, the department's Ph.D. program was developed and has grown to enroll approximately 50 students, more than 50% being African American. Seven of these students have already defended their Ph.D. theses while ten more are being mentored directly by him. He has also developed a Summer Institute program serving 110 students and ten faculty members, mostly from HBCUs. He developed a two conference series that brought over 2000 participants to JSU, including four Nobel Laureates. Dr. Leszczynski's activities stimulate the interest of undergraduate students in pursuing graduate education in the field of science. Research collaboration and training of undergraduate students has been originated for Tougaloo College, an HBCU institution in Jackson, and for Universidad Metropolitana in San Juan. Three Ph.D. students from Dr. Leszczynski's group had been selected to participate in the meetings of Nobel Laureates in Lindau, Germany.