Individual Nomination

卡托·T·劳伦辛弗吉尼亚大学博士。卡托·劳伦辛是弗吉尼亚大学(UVA)Lillian T.Pratt特聘教授、整形外科主席、生物医学工程教授、化学工程教授。他获得了麻省理工学院的生物化学工程/生物技术博士学位，并以优异的成绩获得了哈佛医学院的硕士学位。Laurencin医生也是美国国家科学院院士、医学研究所和世界著名的肩膝外科专家。Laurencin博士获得了比尔·克林顿总统颁发的总统学院奖学金，以表彰他在医学和工程学方面所做的努力。Laurencin博士还因其作为少数族裔学生和教职员工导师和榜样的活动而获得无数奖项，包括美国化学工程师学会颁发的William Grimes奖，该奖项特别表彰一名化学工程师的杰出成就，作为少数族裔的杰出榜样；弗吉尼亚工程基金会的Robert A.Bland奖，该奖项表彰一名对UVA工程领域做出特殊贡献的教职员工，他对该领域的贡献对非裔美国人特别重要；以及弗吉尼亚州联邦劳动力多样性奖。在他杰出的职业生涯中，Laurencin博士采取了深思熟虑的步骤，以确保他的工作不仅影响到研究界，也影响到他亲自指导的未来几代科学家和工程师的生活。他作为少数族裔学生、教师和教职员工的倡导者和导师的记录堪称典范。Laurencin博士的项目表明了他对代表性不足学生的热情；从本科研究体验(REU)计划到教师研究体验(RET)计划，前者让未被充分代表的少数族裔本科生在实验室度过一个夏天，接触生物医学工程领域，后者资助高中教师花一个夏天学习生物医学工程领域，然后将这些信息传播给他们的学生。在Laurencin博士的实验室运行的18年中，超过85名本科生、研究生和研究生水平的少数族裔学生在实验室进行了研究项目，有20多名学生完成了研究生或研究生学位、颁奖典礼和荣誉研究论文。被提名者目前和未来的指导活动的一个组成部分是纳入本科和研究生水平上代表性不足的少数族裔学生，以及各学科的学生、博士后和教职员工。

CATO T. LAURENCIN University of VirginiaDr. Cato Laurencin is the Lillian T. Pratt Distinguished Professor and Chairman of Orthopaedic Surgery and Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Virginia (UVa). He received his Ph.D. degree in biochemical engineering/biotechnology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and an M.D. degree magna cum laude from Harvard Medical School. Dr. Laurencin is also a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Medicine and world-renowned expert in shoulder and knee surgery. Dr. Laurencin received the Presidential Faculty Fellowship from President Bill Clinton in recognition of his efforts to bridge medicine and engineering. Dr. Laurencin has also received numerous awards for his activities as a mentor and role model to underrepresented minority students and faculty including the William Grimes Award from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers which specifically recognizes a chemical engineer's outstanding achievements as a distinguished role model to minorities, the Virginia Engineering Foundation's Robert A. Bland award which recognizes extraordinary contribution to the field of UVa engineering by a faculty member whose contribution to the field is of particular significance to African-Americans, and the Commonwealth of Virginia's Workforce Diversity Award. Throughout his distinguished career, Dr. Laurencin has made deliberate steps to ensure his work impacts not only within the research community but also in the lives of the future generations of scientists and engineers that he personally mentors. His track record as an advocate for and mentor to underrepresented minority students, teachers and faculty is exemplary. Dr. Laurencin's programs indicate his passion for underrepresented students; from the Research Experience for Undergraduate (REU) programs in which underrepresented minority undergraduate students spend a summer in the laboratory gaining exposure to the field of Biomedical Engineering, to the Research Experience for Teachers (RET) program that funds high school teachers to spend a summer learning about the field of Biomedical Engineering and then disseminate this information to their students. In the 18 years that Dr. Laurencin's laboratory has been in operation, over 85 underrepresented minority students at the undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate levels have undertaken research projects in the lab, with over 20 students completing graduate or post graduate degrees, award presentations and honors research theses. An integral part of the current and future mentoring activities of the nominee is the inclusion of underrepresented minority students at the undergraduate and graduate levels as well as students, post-docs and faculty across a wide spectrum of disciplines.