AAAS Mentor Award

The AAAS Mentor Award honors individuals who, during their careers, demonstrate extraordinary leadership to increase the participation of women of all reacial and ethnic groups; African American, American Indian, and Hispanic men; and people with disabilities, in science and engineering fields and careers. The Mentor Award, with a prize of $2,500 and a commemorative plaque, recognizes an individual who has mentored and guided significant numbers of students from underrepresented groups to the completion of doctoral studies and/or who has affected the climate of a department, college, or institution in such a mannoas to significantly increase the diversity of students pursuing and completing doctoral studies. The individual will have demonstrated scholarship, activism, and community building on behalf of women, minorities, and/or people with disabilities in science and/or engineering fields and careers through work at colleges and universities, institutions, or community based organizations. This individual will have served in such a role for less than 10 years.

Recipients:

• Luis Colon (2009)
• Sylvia T. Bozeman (2008)
• Carlos Castillo Chavez (2007)
• Gary S. May (2006)
• Karen Butler-Perry (2005)
• Jagannathan Sankar (2004)
• Michael F. Summers (2003)
• Leticia Marquez-Magana (2001)
• Lisa A. Pruitt (2000)
• Luz Claudio (1999)
• Su-Seng Pang (1998)
• Karan L. Watson (1998)
• Judy Goldsmith (1997)
• Derrick K. Rollins Sr. (1996)
• Diana Cox-Foster (1995)
• Jospeh Francisco (1994)
• Carol Gross (1993)