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爱荷华州立大学的菲利普·库茨科博士。菲利普·库茨科在数学系、爱荷华州大学、三所爱荷华州议会大学和全国范围内一直是努力增加STEM领域代表性不足群体参与的领导者。库茨科博士特别关注的是少数族裔博士生。他是首批构思和实施S系正在进行的项目的成员之一，该项目旨在建立一个包容和多样化的研究生课程。Kutzko博士发现，社区建设对指导同样重要；正如指导将促进指导，建立社区将促进支持，以加强学生的追求。他认为，只有在一个欢迎和包容的部门、学科或大学的背景下将指导的价值观制度化，人们才能希望改变这些机构，使改变超越个人的努力，成为永久性的。2000年，库茨科博士撰写了一份提案，最终将数学系指定为斯隆少数民族奖学金系。这一任命导致该部门共有14名少数族裔学生在通过综合考试时获得了斯隆奖学金。事实上，最近所有的博士S都是斯隆学者。库茨科博士已经在系里指导了至少20名少数民族学生。这些学生中有三人获得了博士学位，并受雇为教师或博士后研究员。Kutzko博士创立并共同领导了全国数学科学博士研究联盟，这是一个由NSF赞助的合作伙伴关系，由爱荷华州议会大学的数学科学系和大约20个少数族裔服务机构的数学系组成。他在佛罗里达农工大学担任爱荷华州议会的导师，并指导了21名学生。库茨科博士曾担任几个数学系的顾问，这些数学系有兴趣建立一些项目，效仿爱荷华州数学系以社区为基础、导师密集的策略。

PHILIP KUTZKO University of IowaDr. Philip Kutzko has been a leader, in the Department of Mathematics, at the University of Iowa, at the three Iowa Regents Universities and nationally, in the effort to increase the participation of groups that are underrepresented in STEM fields. Dr. Kutzko's specific focus is underrepresented minority doctoral students. He was among the initial group to conceive and implement the Department?s ongoing project to build an inclusive and diverse graduate program. Dr. Kutzko finds that community building is equally important to mentoring; as mentoring will foster mentoring, building community will foster support to strengthen students in their pursuits. He feels that it is only by institutionalizing the values of mentoring in the context of a welcoming and inclusive department, or discipline, or university that one might hope to transform these institutions so that changes transcend the efforts of individuals and become permanent. In 2000, Dr. Kutzko wrote the proposal that resulted in the Department of Mathematics becoming designated a Sloan Minority Scholarship Department. This designation resulted in a total of fourteen of the department's minority students receiving Sloan Scholarships as they passed their Comprehensive Exams. Indeed, all of the recent Ph.D.?s have been Sloan Scholars. Dr. Kutzko has mentored at least twenty minority students in the Department. Three of these students have earned the doctoral degree and are employed as faculty or postdoctoral fellows. Dr. Kutzko founded and co-Directs the National Alliance for Doctoral Studies in the Mathematical Sciences, an NSF-sponsored partnership of math sciences departments at the Iowa Regents Universities and Mathematics departments at approximately twenty minority serving institutions. He serves as the Iowa Regents mentor at Florida A&M University and has mentored 21 students there. Dr. Kutzko has served as a consultant to several math departments who are interested in building programs that emulate the community based, mentor intensive strategies of the department at Iowa.