Individual: Nomination of Prof. Douglass Henderson for the PAESMEM Award

韩德胜博士自2001年以来一直担任工程物理系主任。在此之前，他在1995-2001年间担任工程学院副院长。亨德森博士在指导工程和科学领域的学生和教职员工方面做出了重大贡献，从大学预科、本科生和研究生到年轻教职员工，这些学生和教职员工特别是少数族裔代表不足。亨德森博士创造性地创建了威斯康星大学工程研究生奖学金(GERS)项目，这是他致力于在大学环境中指导学生，特别是不同学生群体的最好例子。威斯康星大学的多样性项目在智力上是强大的，特别是GERS项目是一个独特的指导项目，它横跨所有工程学科，与物理科学、生物科学和数学联系在一起。亨德森博士已经从20多名博士和50名不同背景的硕士研究生毕业，这确实是一项非凡的记录。凭借他作为GERS项目主任以及在华盛顿大学担任多样性副院长的出色记录，他是从单个学生到教职员工和管理人员再到机构的各个层面的完美导师。亨德森博士创建GERS项目的努力是独一无二的，是一种革命性的组织理念，旨在解决STEM领域中代表性不足的少数族裔的招聘、保留和毕业问题，并为其他主要研究型大学树立了一个很好的榜样。亨德森博士为支持辅导不同背景的学生而开发的项目和活动在两个方面产生了广泛的影响。首先，许多人认为，就如何在一所主要的Research-I大学成功招收和留住这样的学生而言，该项目是工程指导方面的黄金标准。它正在全国范围内被模仿。其次，GERS项目是如何提高他们在STEM、生物科学、物理科学和社会科学其他领域的成功的一个很好的例子。亨德森博士一直是威斯康星大学在威斯康星大学校园内开发类似项目的关键人物。

Dr. Douglass L. Henderson has been Chair of the Engineering Physics department since 2001. Prior to that, he served as Associate Dean of the College of Engineering from 1995-2001. Dr. Henderson has made significant contributions to mentoring of students and faculty, specifically underrepresented minorities, in engineering and the sciences from pre-college, undergraduates, and graduate students to young faculty. Dr. Henderson's innovative creation of the University of Wisconsin Graduate Engineering Scholars (GERS) program is the prime example of his dedication to mentoring students in the university environment, and diverse student populations in particular. The diversity program at the University of Wisconsin is intellectually robust and the GERS program in particular is a unique mentoring program that cuts across all engineering disciplines and connects to the physical sciences, biological sciences and mathematics. Dr. Henderson has graduated almost two dozen Ph.D. and fifty M.S. students of diverse backgrounds, a truly phenomenal record. With his outstanding record as GERS program director, as well as in his role as Associate Dean of Diversity at UW, he is the consummate mentor at all levels, from individual students to faculty and administrators to institutions. Dr. Henderson's efforts in creating the GERS program is unique, stands as a transformative organizational concept to address the recruitment, retention and graduation of under-representative minorities in the STEM fields, and is a great example for other major research universities to follow. The programs and activities that Dr. Henderson has developed in support of mentoring students of diverse backgrounds have broad impact in two ways. First, many consider the program to be the Gold Standard in engineering mentoring, in terms of how to successfully recruit and retain such students at a major Research-I university. It is being imitated nationally. Second, the GERS program has been a great example for how to improve their success in other areas of STEM, the biological sciences, the physical sciences, and the social sciences. Dr. Henderson has been the key individual at the University of Wisconsin in developing similar programs across the UW campus.