Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring
The Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring is a Presidential award established by the United States White House in 1995. The program is administered by the National Science Foundation on behalf of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy to reward outstanding mentoring by individuals and organizations. PAESMEM is the highest national mentoring award bestowed by the White House.Recipients
- 1996 - Richard A. Tapia
- 1997 - Geraldine L. Richmond
- 1998 - Nina Roscher
- 2003 - Linda B. Hayden, Margaret Werner-Washburne
- 2005 - Lenore Blum, Rosemary Gillespie, Cheryl B. Schrader
- 2007 - Jerzy Leszczynski, Kennedy Reed, Kenneth Sajwan, Laura Bottomley, Lesia Crumpton-Young, Mary Anne Nelson, Patricia DeLeon, Steven Oppenheimer, The Leadership Alliance & The Partnership for Minority Science Education
- 2008 - Richard Zare, Susan M. Kauzlarich
- 2009 - Maja Matarić
- 2011 - Jo Handelsman, Mary Lou Soffa
- 2015 EDGE Foundation
- 2018 - Ulrica Wilson
STEM Mentoring
in the STEM fields has been shown to assist with student retention, a significant problem in the STEM pipeline.
