Individual Nomination of Anthony Carpi

安东尼·卡皮博士已经在约翰杰学院服务了12年。卡皮博士倡导了一系列创新，通过显著减少自然流失率、大幅提高毕业率和大幅增加攻读科学高级学位的毕业生人数，极大地增加了少数族裔获得科学知识的机会。这一系列创新将指导文化融入了约翰·杰伊学院的科学项目，并为他们的大量少数族裔学生带来了特别的好处。卡皮博士曾亲自指导过32名学生，其中56%是少数民族学生。他的学生是约翰·杰伊学院在过去十年里培养出的最成功的科学家之一--他的11名学员继续攻读博士学位，这对约翰·杰伊来说是史无前例的、真正了不起的成就。卡皮博士致力于将约翰·杰伊的科学项目从培训导向转变为研究导向。他领导了两项在大学范围内的重大改进：共同创建了数学与科学资源中心(MSRC)和创建了科学专业研究计划(PRISM)。MSRC每学期为数千名学生提供服务，并在该专业的头两年帮助大幅减少了理科项目的人员流失。PRISM是一个正式的学生研究项目，以及由卡皮博士在约翰·杰伊学院创建的FOS402：本科生研究实习课程，仅在2007-2008学年，参加指导研究的本科生人数就从一到两人增加到32人，近年来该项目的毕业率大幅上升，尤其是在少数族裔学生中。卡皮博士为他的同事们树立了榜样，并为改善科学指导的全国性努力做出了贡献。自成立以来，MSRC已经支持了数千名学生，并为科学保留率增加了约30%。自成立以来，棱镜已经影响了100多名学生，是约翰·杰伊学院科学项目毕业率增加近三倍的主要因素。

Dr. Anthony Carpi has served with John Jay College for 12 years. Dr. Carpi has championed a series of innovations that have substantially increased minority access to the sciences by significantly reducing attrition, greatly improving graduation rates, and dramatically increasing the number of graduates who pursue advanced degrees in the sciences. This series of innovations has integrated a culture of mentoring into the science program at John Jay College and has had particular benefits for their large population of minority students. Dr. Carpi has personally mentored 32 students, of which 56% are minority students. His students have been among the most successful scientists produced by John Jay College in the last decade - 11 of his mentees have gone on to pursue doctoral degrees, an unprecedented and truly remarkable achievement for John Jay. Dr. Carpi has worked to transform the science program at John Jay from training-oriented to research-oriented. He has spearheaded two substantial College-wide improvements: co-creating the Math & Science Resource Center (MSRC) and founding the Program for Research Initiatives for Science Majors (PRISM). MSRC serves thousands of students per semester and helped substantially reduce attrition from the science program in the first two years of the major. PRISM, a formal student research program and FOS402: Research Internships for Undergraduates, an undergraduate research course created by Dr. Carpi at John Jay College, have increased the number of undergraduates participating in mentored research from one to two per year to 32 in the 2007-2008 academic year alone and have contributed to significant increases in program graduation rates in recent years, especially among minority students. Dr. Carpi has served as an exemplar to his colleagues, and has contributed to the national effort to improve science mentoring. The MSRC has supported several thousand students since its founding, and has contributed to an approximately 30% increase in retention rates in the sciences. PRISM has affected more than 100 students since its creation, and has been a major factor in the almost three-fold increase in graduation rates from John Jay College's science programs.