Individual: NSF Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring (Gerard Parkin)

个人：美国国家科学基金会科学、数学和工程指导卓越总统奖（杰拉德·帕金）

• 批准号: 0933971
• 负责人: Gerard Parkin
• 金额: $ 1万
• 依托单位: Columbia University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-04-01 至 2017-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0933971&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Individual; NSF; Presidential; Award; Excellence

Dr. Gerard Parkin is an inspirational mentor who has had a profound impact on the many students that he has taught both in the classroom and research laboratory. In addition to his role as Professor of Chemistry at Columbia University, Dr. Parkin has focused efforts on community oriented teaching and has educated high school, middle school, and elementary school children about aspects of chemistry. Dr. Parkin made it possible for the students of a newly opened New York City public school (75% underrepresented minorities and a motto "Strength in Diversity") to utilize the teaching laboratories in the chemistry department at Columbia University and provided a program of experiments for the students. Dr. Parkin secured financial backing from Bruker AXS to support a symposium and workshop on Structural Methods in Chemistry that exposed a large number of high school students to the important and advanced scientific technique of X-ray diffraction and also provided an excellent example of integration of research and education. Dr. Parkin works to train students in performing research and seeks other ways to aid their professional development. He brings women students sponsored by the National Science Foundation from other universities (typically non-PhD. granting institutions) into his group, thereby providing them with graduate level experience in research. Faculty at nearby teaching universities also select Parkin's laboratory to spend their sabbatical doing research. Both of these interactions are in accord with the NSF mandate of broadening participation of underrepresented groups and academic institutions that are less than full participants in the science and engineering enterprise. Since the New York public school whose students Dr. Parkin brought to Columbia's teaching laboratories consists of 75% underrepresented minorities, educating these students about science and engaging them at an early stage of their careers will have a tremendous impact on the long term objective of encouraging minorities to take on careers in science.

杰拉德·帕金（Gerard Parkin）博士是一位鼓舞人心的导师，他对他在课堂和研究实验室中教过的许多学生产生了深远的影响。 帕金博士除了在哥伦比亚大学担任化学教授外，还专注于以社区为导向的教学，并教育了高中，中学和小学生化学方面的方面。 Parkin博士使新开设的纽约公立学校的学生有可能（75％的代表性少数群体不足，座右铭是“多样性的力量”），以利用哥伦比亚大学化学系的教学实验室，并为学生提供实验计划。 Parkin博士从Bruker Axs获得了财务支持，以支持有关化学结构方法的研讨会和研讨会，该研讨会使大量高中生接触到X射线衍射的重要科学技术，并为研究和教育的整合提供了一个很好的例子。 Parkin博士致力于培训学生进行研究，并寻求其他方法来帮助他们的专业发展。他将其他大学的国家科学基金会（通常是非授权机构）带入了他的小组，从而为她们提供了研究生的研究生经验。附近教学大学的教职员工还选择帕金的实验室来花费他们的休假研究。这两种互动都符合NSF的任务，即扩大代表性不足的群体和学术机构的参与，而这些群体和学术机构的参与程度远不及科学和工程企业的正常参与者。自从纽约公立学校的学生帕金（Parkin）带给哥伦比亚教学实验室的学生包括75％的代表性少数群体，教育这些学生有关科学的知识并在职业生涯的早期阶段与他们互动，这将对鼓励少数民族从事科学职业的长期目标产生巨大影响。