MESA Mentoring Award
Nancy E. Gallagher
UC Santa Barbara
2017 Co-Recipient
Honoring her exceptional contributions to the training of others: with wide-ranging erudition and passionate commitment, she encourages students to discover and venture into intellectual terrains they might not have imagined all the while instilling in them, no matter how ardent their personal beliefs, a respect for professional standards of inquiry in their research and in their teaching. With quiet persistence and little fanfare, she guides and pushes her students to excellence.