Individual PAESMEM Award: Jo Handelsman

Jo Handelsman博士是耶鲁大学分子、细胞和发育生物学霍华德休斯医学研究所教授。汉德尔斯曼实验室的研究重点是了解微生物群落的结构和功能。她在自己的研究实验室担任本科生和研究生的高效导师，从她的学生中推出了许多教师职业。除了自己的研究实验室，汉德尔斯曼还在国内和国际上指导过许多女性和少数族裔教职员工和学生。汉德尔斯曼博士的目标是培养在实验设计、分析和交流等科学活动中具有自信、严谨和道德价值观的学生。汉德尔斯曼博士与人共同创立了科学与工程领域的女性领导力研究所（WISELI），这是一项由美国国家科学基金会（nsf）资助的倡议，旨在研究和解决女性在科学领域发展的障碍。在这个职位上，她开发了一些项目，这些项目有很强的指导成分，导致了整个校园的变化。在威斯康辛大学（University of Wisconsin）期间，汉德尔斯曼博士开发了一门辅导课程和一本配套书籍，在美国超过64所大学教授辅导课程。威斯康星指导研讨会是一个8课时的课程，旨在帮助导师通过阅读、讨论、头脑风暴和与其他导师的相互支持来提高他们的技能。她通过国务院一项促进伊斯兰国家妇女从事科学工作的倡议，将这项工作扩展到阿拉伯国家的妇女。她在“指导科学”方面的工作已被用作各级学术科学中针对妇女和少数民族的指导计划的基础。她继续是一位亲力亲为的导师，同时将她的指导之手伸向全球女性社区和其他代表性不足的群体。

Dr. Jo Handelsman is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor in the Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology at Yale University. Research in the Handelsman lab focuses on understanding the structure and function of microbial communities. She has served as a highly effective mentor of undergraduates and graduate students in her research lab, launching many faculty careers from among her students. Beyond her own research lab, Handelsman has mentored many women and minority faculty and students nationally and internationally. Dr. Handelsman's goals are to produce students who bring confidence, rigor, and ethical values to the range of scientific activities - experimental design, analysis, and communication. Dr. Handelsman co-founded the Women in Science and Engineering Leadership Institute (WISELI), an NSF-funded initiative to study and address the barriers to advancement of women in science. In this role, she developed programs that have strong mentoring components that have led to campus-wide changes. While at the University of Wisconsin, Dr. Handelsman developed a mentoring course and an accompanying book that are used to teach mentoring at more than 64 universities in the United States. The Wisconsin Mentoring Seminar is an 8-session course intended to help mentors improve their skills through reading, discussion, brainstorming, and mutual support with other mentors. She extended this work to women in Arab countries through a State Department initiative to advance women in science in Islamic countries. Her work on the "science of mentoring" has been used as the basis for mentoring programs for women and minorities at all levels of academic science. She continues to be a hands-on mentor while extending her mentoring hand to a global community of women and other underrepresented groups.