The AAAS Mentor Award for Lifetime Achievement honors individuals who, during their career, demonstrate extraordinary leadership to increase the participation of women of all racial and ethnic groups; African American, American Indian, and Hispanic men; and people with disabilities, in science and engineering fields and careers. The award, with a prize of $5,000 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 manner as to significantly increase the diversity of students pursuing and completing doctoral studies. This 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 10 years or longer.
Recipients:
- Linda Sealy (2018)
- Margaret Wener-Washburne (2016)
- Saundra Yancy McGuire (2015)
- Barbara Horwitz (2014)
- Andew Tsin (2013)
- Alice M. Agogino (2012)
- Bobby Wilson (2011)
- Joel D. Oppenheim (2010)
- Diola Bagayoko (2009)
- Percy A. Pierre (2008)
- Raymond L. Johnson (2006)
- Sheila E. Browne (2005)
- Rhonda J. Hughes (2004)
- Carlos F. Gutierrez (2003)
- Neena B. Schwartz (2002)
- Etta Zuber Falconer (2001)
- James H. M. Henderson (2001)
- Evelyn L. Hu (2000)
- William E. Spicer (2000)
- Isiah M. Warner (1999)
- Helen Davies (1998)
- Richard A. Tapia (1997)
- Joseph G. Gall (1996)
- William M. Jackson (1996)
- Lawrence Irwin Gilbert (1995)
- Joe Martinez (1994)
- Mary W. Gray (1994)
- John Watson (1993)
- Lewis Lipsitt (1993)
- Abdulalim Abdullah Shabazz (1992)
- Lafayette Frederick (1991)
- Anthony J. Andreoli (1991)