The University of Wisconsin System awarded UW-Madison professor Douglass Henderson the Regents’ Diversity Award Wednesday for his work to improve minority students’ academic experience.
The award was created five years ago to honor individuals or programs in the UW System that “foster access and success in university life” for minority students, according to a statement released by the UW System.
Henderson, a faculty member at UW-Madison for over 20 years, helped create the Graduate Engineering Research Scholars program, which aims to increase the number of minority students in the graduate engineering program, according to the statement.
Other Diversity Award honorees include a professor from UW-La Crosse and a scholars program from UW-Whitewater. Additionally, the recipients will receive extra funding to continue the programs for which they were honored.
The award recipients will be honored at the Board of Regents meeting Feb. 8 in Madison.
