INDIVIDUAL PAESMEM: Gillespie, Integration of Research and Education

这项提案提名罗斯玛丽·吉莱斯皮博士为NSF科学、数学和工程指导杰出总统奖(PAESMEM)的候选人。吉莱斯皮博士是加州大学伯克利分校的教授，也是系统昆虫学的施林格教授。她也是埃西格昆虫学博物馆的馆长。吉莱斯皮博士概括了PAESMEM计划的目标。她作为科学中代表性不足的群体，特别是太平洋岛民和妇女的导师，有着非常活跃和长期的历史，是她所在领域的主要研究人员。智力价值：吉莱斯皮的研究关注蜘蛛的物种起源和生态，特别是太平洋偏远岛屿的起源。她最为人所知的是利用“热点”群岛非凡的与世隔绝和地质历史作为科学实验室。由于这些地区的许多蜘蛛生物群都是未知的，吉莱斯皮不得不从最基本的方面着手，包括描述许多新物种并了解它们的生物学。她在这一领域发表了许多出版物。作为这一基础的结果，吉莱斯皮和她的研究小组已经能够做出几项深刻的发现，包括类似的生态群落可以从独立的起源多次出现的概念。更广泛的影响：在夏威夷大学期间，吉莱斯皮申请并获得了NSF环境生物学本科生指导计划的资助，目的是让太平洋岛国的学生接触到环境科学和保护生物学的职业。在这个项目中，吉莱斯皮和同事们发现，他们需要从根本上改变他们与代表不足的群体建立联系并吸引他们的方式。这些经验教训对NSF的UMEB项目产生了持久的影响，并在其他大型指导项目的招聘中发挥了重要作用，吉莱斯皮也参与了这些项目的协调。同样在夏威夷期间，吉莱斯皮帮助NSF的GK-12项目成功地提出了一项建议，该项目通过将研究生纳入当地学生比例偏低的学校来帮助培养研究生。这笔数百万美元的赠款针对的是瓦胡岛上有太平洋岛民的学校。遵循这种模式，吉莱斯皮在伯克利获得资金，作为另一项NSF GK-12提案的负责人。这笔赠款主要用于奥克兰和里士满的学校，也利用了伯克利的野外站和博物馆资源。除了大型项目倡议外，吉莱斯皮还为太平洋岛民的不同群体，特别是女性，提供了个人和持续的指导。多年来，她在她的实验室接待了许多密克罗尼西亚本科生，包括在夏威夷和最近在伯克利。吉莱斯皮的努力在许多方面都是非同寻常的，特别是在解决这些学生所经历的文化差异方面。

This proposal nominates Dr. Rosemary Gillespie for the NSF's Presidential Awards for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM). Dr. Gillespie is a Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and holds the Schlinger Chair of Systematic Entomology. She is also the Director of the Essig Museum of Entomology. Dr. Gillespie epitomizes the goals of the PAESMEM Program. She has a very active and long history as a mentor for underrepresented groups in science, particularly Pacific Islanders and women, and is the leading researcher in her field. Intellectual Merit: Gillespie's research concerns the origins of species and ecology of spiders, particularly of the remote islands of the Pacific. She is best known for using the remarkable isolation and geological history of "hot-spot" archipelagoes as a scientific laboratory. Because much of the spider biota in these regions is unknown, Gillespie has had to work from the very basics, including describing many new species and understanding their biology. She has numerous publications in this area. As a result of this foundation, Gillespie and her research group have been able to make several profound discoveries, including the notion that similar ecological communities can arise multiple times from independent origins. Broader Impacts: While at the University of Hawaii, Gillespie applied for and was funded for a grant in NSF's program for Undergraduate Mentoring in Environmental Biology, with the goal of exposing Pacific island students to careers in environmental science and conservation biology. In this program, Gillespie and colleagues found they needed to change fundamentally the way in which they connected to and attracted students from underrepresented groups. These lessons have had a lasting impact on NSF's UMEB program and have been instrumental in recruitment in the other large mentoring programs, which Gillespie also coordinates. Also while at Hawaii, Gillespie helped spearhead a successful proposal to NSF's GK-12 program, which helps train graduate students by incorporating them into local schools with a large proportion of underrepresented students. This multi-million dollar grant targeted schools with Pacific Islanders on Oahu. Following this model, Gillespie was funded at Berkeley as the lead for another NSF GK-12 proposal. This grant focuses on schools in Oakland and Richmond and also makes use of Berkeley's field stations and museum resources. In addition to the big program initiatives, Gillespie has been a personal and sustained mentor to a diverse group of Pacific islanders, particularly women. She has hosted numerous Micronesian undergraduates in her lab over the years both at Hawaii and more recently at Berkeley. Gillespie's efforts have been extraordinary in many ways, particularly in addressing the cultural differences, which these students experience.