Slesinger Awards for Excellence in Mentoring Recipients

Portrait of Doris Peyser Slesinger (1927-2006)

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.

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