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

个人：提名 Douglass Henderson 教授获得 PAESMEM 奖

• 批准号: 0938449
• 负责人: Douglass Henderson
• 金额: $ 1万
• 依托单位: University of Wisconsin-Madison
• 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: 2011-06-01 至 2013-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0938449&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Individual; Nomination; Prof.; Douglass; Henderson

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.

道格拉斯博士亨德森自2001年以来一直担任工程物理系主任。在此之前，他于1995年至2001年担任工程学院副院长。亨德森博士为指导学生和教师做出了重大贡献，特别是代表性不足的少数民族，从大学预科生，本科生和研究生到年轻教师的工程和科学。亨德森博士创新性地创建了威斯康星州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，特别是多样化学生群体的最好例子。在威斯康星州的大学的多样性计划是智力强大，特别是GERS计划是一个独特的指导计划，跨越所有工程学科，并连接到物理科学，生物科学和数学。亨德森博士已经毕业了20多个博士学位。50个MS不同背景的学生，一个真正惊人的记录。凭借他作为GERS项目主任的出色记录，以及他作为UW多样性副院长的角色，他是各级完美的导师，从学生个人到教师和管理人员到机构。亨德森博士在创建GERS计划的努力是独一无二的，作为一个变革性的组织概念，以解决STEM领域代表性不足的少数民族的招聘，保留和毕业，是其他主要研究型大学效仿的好榜样。亨德森博士为支持指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，许多人认为该计划是工程指导的黄金标准，就如何成功地在一所主要的研究型大学招募和留住这样的学生而言。全国都在模仿。其次，GERS计划是如何提高他们在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州大学在整个华盛顿大学校园开发类似项目的关键人物。