The President of the United States annually recognizes the people and institutions that have provided broad opportunities for participation by women, minorities and disabled persons in science, mathematics and engineering at the elementary, secondary, undergraduate and graduate education levels.
No more than 10 persons and 10 institutions are selected each year for recognition. Each award includes a $10,000 grant to provide for continued mentoring work.
The awards are presented during the Spring at a White House ceremony.
Martha Shumate Absher
Director, Outreach for the School of Engineering
Duke University
Howard Adams
Director, National Institute on Mentoring
Georgia Institute of Technology
Diola Bagayoko
Director, Timbuktu Academy
Professor of Physics, Southern U. and A&M College
Southern University
Joaquin Bustoz (Deceased)
Professor of Mathematics
Arizona State University
Carlos Gutierrez
Professor of Chemistry
California State University - Los Angeles
Janet S. Herman
Associate Professor, Environmental Sciences
University of Virginia - Charlottesville
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Susan J.S. Lasser
Director, Programs for Educational Enrichment and Retention (PEER)
Clemson University
Melvin B. Robin
Science High School, Newark
Walter S. Smith
Helen DeVitt Jones Professor and Chair of the Department of Curriculum
Texas Tech University
Richard A. Tapia
Noah Harding Professor of Mathematical Sciences
Rice University
Olger C. Twyner, III, Director
Double Discovery Center
Columbia University
Mary L. Pavone, Director
Women in Science Project (WISP)
Dartmouth College
George Campbell, Jr, President
and CEO
National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering, Inc.
Evangeline Sandoval Trujillo, Director
New Mexico Mathematics, Engineering, and Science Achievment (NM MESA,
Inc.)
Gail Whitney, Director
Saturday Academy Program
Oregon Graduate Institute of Science
and Technology
Freeman Hrabowski, III, President
Earnestine Baker, Director Meyerhoff Scholarship Program
University of Maryland Baltimore County
(UMBC)