Individual - Nomination for Presidential Award for Excellence in Scientific Mentoring

肯尼迪·里德博士拥有广泛的工作组合，以扩大妇女和少数族裔在STEM学科中的参与。里德博士自1979年以来一直是劳伦斯利弗莫尔国家实验室(LLNL)的物理学家，致力于理论原子物理的研究。在他在LLNL的整个职业生涯中，他在努力增加少数族裔学生和科学专业人员的机会方面发挥了重要作用。一项重要贡献是建立了国家科学合作模式，将国家实验室的顶尖科学家与少数族裔服务机构的教授和学生联系起来。通过一项将LLNL科学家、历史黑人学院和大学(HBCU)和其他主要服务于少数族裔学生(MI)的机构的教职员工聚集在一起的计划，LLNL/HBCU/MI计划已经出版了30多份由LLNL科学家和HBCU/MI教职员工和学生共同撰写的科学出版物。该项目的许多学生都在攻读更高的学位，许多人已经进入了科学和技术大军。里德博士在LLNL启动了一个本科项目，并鼓励少数族裔学生攻读STEM学科的高级学位和职业。这些学生中的许多人已经进入STEM劳动力大军。他认识到这些学科中少数群体的招聘和留住构成了挑战，因此在LLNL为学生设立研究生奖学金方面发挥了重要作用，然后帮助在其他国家实验室中扩大了这些机会。里德博士致力于扩大少数民族和女性学生对自然科学的参与，他已经成功地帮助其中100名学生获得了博士学位。里德通过其他活动，如国家物理科学联盟研究员计划和全国黑人物理学家协会研究员，对塑造许多学生的职业生涯起到了重要作用。里德博士的工作有助于扩大代表不足的学生参加STEM的范围，并加强少数族裔服务机构的研究和学术基础设施。在该联盟的努力下，已颁发了300多个研究生奖学金。他曾担任全国黑人物理学家协会主席，并继续担任该协会奖学金委员会主席。已有30多名本科生获得奖学金。

Dr. Kennedy Reed has an extensive portfolio of work broadening the participation of women and minorities in STEM disciplines. Dr. Reed has been a physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) since 1979, working on research in theoretical atomic physics. Throughout his career at LLNL, he has played a significant role in efforts to increase opportunities for minority students and professionals in the sciences. An important contribution has been the establishment of a national model for scientific collaborations linking leading scientists from a national laboratory with professors and students from Minority Serving Institutions. Through a program to bring together LLNL scientists, faculty from Historically Black College and Universities (HBCUs) and other institutions serving predominantly minority students (MIs) the LLNL/HBCU/MI Program, has produced more than thirty scientific publications co-authored by LLNL scientists and HBCU/MI faculty and students. A significant number of student participants in the program have pursued advanced degrees, and many have entered the science and technology workforce. Dr. Reed initiated an undergraduate program at LLNL and has encouraged minority students to pursue advanced degrees and careers in STEM disciplines. Many of these students have entered the STEM workforce. Recognizing that minority recruitment and retention in these disciplines posed challenges, he was instrumental in the creation of graduate fellowships at LLNL for students, and then helped to broaden those opportunities among the other national laboratories. In his commitment to broadening the participation of minority and female students in the physical sciences, Dr. Reed has succeeded in helping 100 of these students to earn their doctorates.Dr. Reed has been instrumental in shaping the careers of numerous students through other activities such as the National Physical Science Consortium Fellows program and the National Society of Black Physicists Fellows. Dr. Reed's work has helped to broaden the participation of underrepresented students in STEM and enhance the research and academic infrastructure of Minority Serving Institutions. Through the efforts of the consortium, over 300 graduate fellowships have been awarded. He served as the Chair of the National Society of Black Physicists, and continues to chair its scholarship committee. Over 30 undergraduates have received scholarships.