Individual: NSF Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring (Gerard Parkin)

个人：美国国家科学基金会科学、数学和工程指导卓越总统奖（杰拉德·帕金）

• 批准号: 0933971
• 负责人: Gerard Parkin
• 金额: $ 1万
• 依托单位: Columbia University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-04-01 至 2017-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0933971&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Individual; NSF; Presidential; Award; Excellence

Dr. Gerard Parkin is an inspirational mentor who has had a profound impact on the many students that he has taught both in the classroom and research laboratory. In addition to his role as Professor of Chemistry at Columbia University, Dr. Parkin has focused efforts on community oriented teaching and has educated high school, middle school, and elementary school children about aspects of chemistry. Dr. Parkin made it possible for the students of a newly opened New York City public school (75% underrepresented minorities and a motto "Strength in Diversity") to utilize the teaching laboratories in the chemistry department at Columbia University and provided a program of experiments for the students. Dr. Parkin secured financial backing from Bruker AXS to support a symposium and workshop on Structural Methods in Chemistry that exposed a large number of high school students to the important and advanced scientific technique of X-ray diffraction and also provided an excellent example of integration of research and education. Dr. Parkin works to train students in performing research and seeks other ways to aid their professional development. He brings women students sponsored by the National Science Foundation from other universities (typically non-PhD. granting institutions) into his group, thereby providing them with graduate level experience in research. Faculty at nearby teaching universities also select Parkin's laboratory to spend their sabbatical doing research. Both of these interactions are in accord with the NSF mandate of broadening participation of underrepresented groups and academic institutions that are less than full participants in the science and engineering enterprise. Since the New York public school whose students Dr. Parkin brought to Columbia's teaching laboratories consists of 75% underrepresented minorities, educating these students about science and engaging them at an early stage of their careers will have a tremendous impact on the long term objective of encouraging minorities to take on careers in science.

Gerard Parkin博士是一位鼓舞人心的导师，他在课堂和研究实验室所教的许多学生都产生了深远的影响。除了担任哥伦比亚大学（Columbia University）的化学教授外，他还专注于社区导向的教学，并对高中、初中和小学的孩子进行化学方面的教育。帕金博士让一所新开的纽约市公立学校（75%的少数族裔未被充分代表，校训是“多样性的力量”）的学生能够利用哥伦比亚大学化学系的教学实验室，并为学生提供了一个实验项目。Parkin博士获得了Bruker AXS的财政支持，以支持一个关于化学结构方法的研讨会和讲习班，使大量高中学生接触到x射线衍射的重要和先进的科学技术，也提供了一个很好的研究和教育结合的例子。帕金博士致力于训练学生进行研究，并寻求其他方法来帮助他们的专业发展。他从其他大学带来了由国家科学基金会资助的女学生（通常是非博士）。授予机构)加入他的团队，从而为他们提供研究生水平的研究经验。附近教学大学的教师也选择帕金的实验室度过他们的休假做研究。这两种互动都符合美国国家科学基金会的使命，即扩大未充分参与科学和工程事业的代表性不足的群体和学术机构的参与。由于帕金博士带到哥伦比亚大学教学实验室的纽约公立学校的学生中有75%是未被充分代表的少数族裔，对这些学生进行科学教育，并在他们职业生涯的早期阶段让他们参与进来，将对鼓励少数族裔从事科学事业的长期目标产生巨大影响。