AAAS Mentor Awards 

The AAAS Mentor Award and the Lifetime Mentor Award honor individuals who during their careers demonstrate extraordinary leadership to increase the participation underrepresented groups in science and engineering fields and careers. These groups include women, African Americans, Native Americans, Hispanic Americans, and people with disabilities.

Both awards recognize an individual who has mentored and guided significant numbers of students from underrepresented groups to the completion of doctoral studies, or who has impacted the climate of a department, college or institution to significantly increase the diversity of students pursuing and completing doctoral studies.

Such commitment and extraordinary effort may be demonstrated by:

• the number and diversity of students mentored;
• assisting students to present and publish their work, to find financial aid, and to provide career guidance;
• providing psychological support, encouragement, and essential strategies for life in the scholarly community; 
• continued interest in the individual's professional advancement.

The Mentor Award recognizes an individual who has served the role of mentor for less than ten years. The award includes a monetary prize of $2500.

The Lifetime Mentor Award recognizes an individual who has served the role of mentor for more than ten years. The award includes a monetary prize of $5,000.

The awards are open to all regardless of nationality or citizenship. Nominees must be living at the time of their nomination.

The deadline for completed nominations is July 31, 2001. If you wish to receive an application in the mail, email your request to mge@aaas.org, or contact: 

Yolanda S. George, Deputy Director
Directorate for Education and Human Resources Programs
American Association for the Advancement of Science
1200 New York Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20005-3920
(202) 326-7019
Fax: (202) 371-9849
ygeorge@aaas.org

Past Recipients of the AAAS Mentor Award

1993 Carol Gross, University of California, San Francisco.

1994 Joseph Francisco, Wayne State University.

1995 Diana Cox-Foster, The Pennsylvania State University.

1996 Derrick K. Rollins, Sr., Iowa State University, Ames.

1997 Judy Goldsmith, University of Kentucky College of Engineering.

1998 Su-Seng Pang, Louisiana State University and Karan L. Watson, Texas A&M University.

1999 Luz Claudio, Mount Sinai Medical Center.

2000 Lisa A. Pruitt, University of California at Berkeley.

1991 Anthony J. Andreoli, California State University, and Lafayette Frederick, Howard University.

1992 Abdulalim A. Shabazz, Clark Atlanta University.

1993 Lewis Lipsitt, Brown University, and John Watson, University of California at San Francisco.

1994 Mary Gray, American University, and Joe Martinez, University of California at Berkeley.

1995 Lawrence Irwin Gilbert, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

1996 Joseph G. Gall, Carnegie Institution, Baltimore, MD, and William M. Jackson, University of California at Davis.

1997 Richard Tapia, Rice University.

1998 Helen Davies, University of Pennsylvania.

1999 Isiah M. Warner, Louisiana State University.

2000 Evelyn Hu, University of California at Santa Barbara, and William Spicer, Stanford University.