Individual: Nomination of Prof. Douglass Henderson for the PAESMEM Award

个人：提名 Douglass Henderson 教授获得 PAESMEM 奖

• 批准号: 0938449
• 负责人: Douglass Henderson
• 金额: $ 1万
• 依托单位: University of Wisconsin-Madison
• 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: 2011-06-01 至 2013-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0938449&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Individual; Nomination; Prof.; Douglass; Henderson

Dr. Douglass L. Henderson has been Chair of the Engineering Physics department since 2001. Prior to that, he served as Associate Dean of the College of Engineering from 1995-2001. Dr. Henderson has made significant contributions to mentoring of students and faculty, specifically underrepresented minorities, in engineering and the sciences from pre-college, undergraduates, and graduate students to young faculty. Dr. Henderson's innovative creation of the University of Wisconsin Graduate Engineering Scholars (GERS) program is the prime example of his dedication to mentoring students in the university environment, and diverse student populations in particular. The diversity program at the University of Wisconsin is intellectually robust and the GERS program in particular is a unique mentoring program that cuts across all engineering disciplines and connects to the physical sciences, biological sciences and mathematics. Dr. Henderson has graduated almost two dozen Ph.D. and fifty M.S. students of diverse backgrounds, a truly phenomenal record. With his outstanding record as GERS program director, as well as in his role as Associate Dean of Diversity at UW, he is the consummate mentor at all levels, from individual students to faculty and administrators to institutions. Dr. Henderson's efforts in creating the GERS program is unique, stands as a transformative organizational concept to address the recruitment, retention and graduation of under-representative minorities in the STEM fields, and is a great example for other major research universities to follow. The programs and activities that Dr. Henderson has developed in support of mentoring students of diverse backgrounds have broad impact in two ways. First, many consider the program to be the Gold Standard in engineering mentoring, in terms of how to successfully recruit and retain such students at a major Research-I university. It is being imitated nationally. Second, the GERS program has been a great example for how to improve their success in other areas of STEM, the biological sciences, the physical sciences, and the social sciences. Dr. Henderson has been the key individual at the University of Wisconsin in developing similar programs across the UW campus.

Douglass L. Henderson 博士自 2001 年起担任工程物理系系主任。在此之前，他于 1995 年至 2001 年担任工程学院副院长。亨德森博士在工程和科学领域（从大学预科生、本科生、研究生到年轻教师）的学生和教师（特别是代表性不足的少数族裔）的指导方面做出了重大贡献。亨德森博士创新创建的威斯康星大学研究生工程学者 (GERS) 计划是他致力于在大学环境中指导学生，特别是多元化学生群体的最好例子。威斯康星大学的多元化项目在智力上非常强大，特别是 GERS 项目是一个独特的指导项目，跨越所有工程学科，并与物理科学、生物科学和数学相联系。亨德森博士已毕业近两打博士学位。和五十个硕士学位不同背景的学生，这是一个真正非凡的记录。凭借担任 GERS 项目主任以及威斯康星大学多样性副院长的出色记录，他是各个级别的完美导师，从学生个人到教师、管理人员再到机构。亨德森博士创建 GERS 项目的努力是独一无二的，它是一个变革性的组织理念，旨在解决 STEM 领域代表性不足的少数群体的招聘、保留和毕业问题，也是其他主要研究型大学效仿的典范。亨德森博士为支持指导不同背景的学生而制定的计划和活动在两个方面产生了广泛的影响。首先，许多人认为该项目是工程指导的黄金标准，涉及如何在主要研究型大学成功招募和留住此类学生。国内正在纷纷效仿。其次，GERS 项目是如何提高 STEM、生物科学、物理科学和社会科学其他领域的成功的一个很好的例子。亨德森博士是威斯康星大学在整个威斯康星大学校园开发类似项目的关键人物。