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

Douglass L. Henderson博士自2001年起担任工程物理系主席。在此之前，他从1995年到2001年担任工程学院副院长。亨德森博士在指导学生和教师方面做出了重大贡献，特别是在工程和科学领域，从大学预科生、本科生、研究生到年轻教师。亨德森博士对威斯康星大学研究生工程学者（GERS）计划的创新创造是他致力于指导大学环境中的学生，特别是不同学生群体的主要例子。威斯康星大学的多元化项目在智力上是健全的，尤其是GERS项目是一个独特的指导项目，横跨所有工程学科，并与物理科学、生物科学和数学联系在一起。亨德森博士毕业了近24名博士和50名不同背景的硕士学生，这是一个真正非凡的记录。凭借他作为GERS项目主任的杰出记录，以及他作为华盛顿大学多元化副院长的角色，他是各个层面的完美导师，从学生个人到教师，从管理人员到机构。亨德森博士创建GERS项目的努力是独一无二的，代表了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、保留和毕业问题，是其他主要研究型大学效仿的一个很好的例子。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，就如何在一所主要的研究型大学成功招募和留住这样的学生而言，许多人认为这个项目是工程指导的黄金标准。它正在被全国效仿。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等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整个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.