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Published on: 6/7/2004
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Milton E. Fletcher, General Motors Corporation, has received its Presidential Award; Sterling Gatling, Ph.D., Dow Chemical Company, has received the Father Theodore Hesburgh Leadership Award; Nancy Knight, Iowa State University, has received the University Member of the Year Award; and Dianne M. Engram, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, has received the Employer Member of the Year Award.
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Ms. Knight is Manager of Engineering Graduate Programs in the College of Engineering at Iowa State University.She has served as GEM's representative for Iowa State since 1999 and is being recognized for her outstanding efforts to recruit African American, American Indian, and Hispanic American students to the university through GEM's graduate engineering fellowship programs.
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Fletcher, Gatling, Knight,and Engram are exemplary models of how to fulfill GEM's mission to increase the numbers of African American, American Indian, and Hispanic American pursuing advanced degrees in technical disciplines and building leadership careers in industry and academia.