The White House has established the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM) program. The Program, administered on behalf of the White House by the National Science Foundation seeks to identify outstanding mentoring efforts or programs designed to enhance the participation of groups underrepresented in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. The awardees serve as exemplars to their colleagues and are leaders in the national effort to more fully develop the Nation’s human resources in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Nominations to honor individuals and organizations are invited for the competition of these annual awards.
It is expected that each award will be used to continue the recognized activities. The nominees must have served in such a mentoring role for at least five years. Beyond the grant award, each awardee will be invited to Washington, DC, for an awards ceremony, recognition events, and meetings with leaders in Federal sector education and research, and focused workshops addressing effective mentoring of students from which the underrepresented groups. The awardees will be honored at a White House ceremony.
The submission process requires that the candidate individual or organization be nominated by a colleague, administrator, or student. Nominations may only be considered for one of the two categories of award, either “individual” or “organizational” but not both. Only award will be made to a single organization or an individual at that organization per annual competition. Nominations for an “individual award” must clearly delineate the achievements of the individual as separate from those of the organization; nominations for an “organizational award” must reflect the organization as different from the individual achievements.
Please note the cover sheet should be ocmpleted with the submitter as the principal investigator, and the nominee as the co-principal investigator. The nominator should enter the proposal into FastLane and add the nominee to the proposal as a Co-PI in the Co-PI section of the cover sheet. This guidance applies to both Individual and Organizational nominees. Should the nomination be successful, the nominee (Co-PI) will be identified as the PI for the grant award, and the submitter will be removed from the nomination.
The complete solicitation (PDF) can be found online for review.
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