Outstanding Mentor Awards

Nominations Open Now through June 2, 2023 🎉

About Outstanding Mentors 

Individuals showing outstanding commitment to mentorship can be nominated for specific award categories listed below. Each category will have one awardee for 2023. Nominations for all outstanding mentor categories are also considered for the Distinguished Mentor award.

Nominate a Mentor

SACNAS Outstanding College/University Mentor

Nominee holds a faculty position at an undergraduate focused college or university. Nominee has a demonstrated record of encouraging historically underrepresented minority undergraduate students to pursue advanced degrees in a science, technology, engineering, mathematics or a related field.

SACNAS Outstanding Research and Professional Mentor

Nominee holds a faculty position at a university, industry, government or non-profit institution. Nominee has a demonstrated record of encouraging historically underrepresented minority students or professionals to pursue advanced degrees in a science, technology, engineering, mathematics or a related field.

SACNAS Outstanding Hispanic Student Mentor

Nominee holds a faculty position at a college, university, industry, government or non-profit institution. Nominee has a demonstrated record of encouraging Hispanic/Latinx students to pursue advanced degrees in a science, technology, engineering, mathematics or a related field.

SACNAS Outstanding Community College Mentor

Nominee holds a faculty position at a community college. Nominee has a demonstrated record of encouraging historically underrepresented minority students to pursue advanced degrees in a science, technology, engineering, mathematics or a related field.

SACNAS Outstanding Native American Student Mentor

Nominee holds a faculty position at a college, tribal college, university, industry, government or non-profit institution. Nominee has a demonstrated record of encouraging Native American students to pursue advanced degrees in a science, technology, engineering, mathematics or a related field.

2022 Awardees

2022 SACNAS Outstanding Community College Mentor

Christine Case, PhD

Professor of Biology, Skyline College

2022 SACNAS Outstanding Research + Professional Mentor

Angela Brooks, PhD

Associate Professor, University of California Santa Cruz

2022 Outstanding Hispanic Student Mentor

Alejandra Colon-Rodriguez, PhD

Program Officer, California Governor's Office of 
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