Slesinger Awards for Excellence in Mentoring Recipients
| wdt_ID | Year | Name | Department |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2024 | Alfonso Morales | Planning & Landscape Architecture |
| 2 | 2024 | Susan Thibeault | Surgery: Otolaryngology |
| 3 | 2023 | Robert N. Golden | School of Medicine & Public Health |
| 4 | 2023 | Christine Sorkness | School of Pharmacy |
| 5 | 2022 | Susan Cook | Mead Witter School of Music |
| 6 | 2022 | Kristyn Masters | Biomedical Engineering |
| 7 | 2022 | Mitra Sharafi | Law |
| 8 | 2021 | Tracey Holloway | Nelson Institute; Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences |
| 9 | 2021 | Trina McMahon | Civil & Environmental Engineering |
| 10 | 2020 | Janean Dilworth-Bart | Human Development & Family Studies |
| 11 | 2020 | Jerlando Jackson | Educational Leadership & Policy Analysis |
| 12 | 2020 | Tammy Scerpella | Orthopedics & Rehabilitation |
| 13 | 2019 | Beth Meyerand | Medical Physics; Biomedical Engineering |
| 14 | 2019 | Joan Schmit | Risk & Insurance |
| 15 | 2018 | Ian Bird | Obstetrics & Gynecology |
| 16 | 2018 | Laura McClure | Classical & Ancient Near Eastern Studies |
| 17 | 2018 | Karen Young | Pathobiological Sciences |
| 18 | 2017 | Connie Flanagan | Civil Society & Community Studies |
| 19 | 2017 | Susan Hagness | Electrical & Computer Engineering |
| 20 | 2016 | Jane Collins | Community & Environmental Sociology |
| 21 | 2016 | Jay Gallagher | Astronomy |
| 22 | 2015 | Beth Mertz | Law |
| 23 | 2014 | Linda Schuler | Comparative Biosciences |
| 24 | 2013 | Beth Graue | Curriculum & Instruction |
| 25 | 2012 | Diane Bless | Communication Sciences & Disorders; Surgery |
Doris Peyser Slesinger was an active scholar, an inspiring teacher, and an outstanding mentor who devoted special attention to working with, training, and mentoring women. Slesinger focused her research on under-served populations, especially migrant farm workers in Wisconsin, a group she studied for over 20 years. She published extensively, co-authoring four books and nearly 100 articles. Collaborating with health professionals, she created widely distributed bilingual Women’s Health Brochures. Her work also took her to rural Peru, where she studied maternal and child health and deepened her cross-cultural understanding.
Slesinger was honored doubly as a mentor, when the Women Faculty Mentoring Program (now the Faculty Mentoring Program) named the Doris Slesinger Award for Excellence in Mentoring for her and selected her as the first recipient.