Contact Information

Arkansas Mentoring and Networking Association
Founder

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2006/january18/ppl-011806.html
Little Rock AR

Biography

ALONZO ASHLEY, a retired employee relations manager at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), has received a 2005 Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM). Ashley originated and developed the SLAC Summer Research Program for underrepresented minority undergraduates in science, technology, engineering and mathematics—now called the Department of Energy Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internship Program. He also was responsible for SLAC's charter membership in the National Consortium for Graduate Degrees for Minorities in Science and Engineering.

The programs Ashley pioneered resulted in SLAC's recruitment and retention of at least 10 African American Ph.D. physicists and dozens of minority master's degree-level engineers, computer scientists, mathematicians and environmental scientists, according to the National Science Foundation (NSF), which administers the PAESMEM award. NSF also lauded Ashley for initiating partnerships with the National Society of Black Engineers, the Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose and numerous historically black colleges and universities. John Marburger, director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, presented the award Nov. 16 at a ceremony in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, D.C.

[REF: http://news.stanford.edu/news/2006/january18/ppl-011806.html ]