INDIVIDUAL: Nomination of Roy Clarke for the PAESMEM for his Commitment to Enhancing Diversity in Underrepresented Minorities and Women in Physics

1987年，Roy Clarke博士在密歇根大学启动了应用物理项目，因为他意识到现有的物理项目无法满足那些想要在传统物理界限之外的领域进行研究的学生的需求，包括许多来自科学、工程和数学领域代表性不足的学生。应用物理项目很快成为其他研究生项目的变革模式，这些研究生项目致力于增强其群体的多样性，并更有效地利用跨学科环境的好处，这是21世纪大型研究型大学的标志。在过去十年中，该项目授予的物理学博士学位中，有很大一部分是来自弱势群体的学生。2006年，克拉克博士被授予第一届泰晤士和摩尔学院卓越导师奖，并于2008年被斯隆基金会评为杰出导师。

Dr, Roy Clarke started the Applied Physics Program at the University of Michigan in 1987 with the recognition that the existing Physics Program was not equipped to address the needs of students who wanted to pursue research in areas outside of the traditional physics boundaries including many students from groups underrepresented in science, engineering and mathematics. The Applied Physics Program soon became a transformative model for other graduate programs that are committed to enhancing the diversity of their cohorts and for more effectively utilizing the benefits of the interdisciplinary environment that is the hallmark of large research universities in the 21st century. The program has graduated a significant fraction of all physics Ph.D.s awarded in the past ten years to students from underrepresented groups. Dr. Clarke was awarded the first Imes and Moore Faculty Award for excellence in mentoring in 2006 and was recognized by the Sloan Foundation as an Outstanding Mentor in 2008.