Winny Dong '94, M.S. '98, Ph.D. '00

Winny Dong '94, M.S. '98, Ph.D. '00, has received the highest U.S. award for excellence in science, mathematics and engineering mentoring from the White House, one of the 117 teachers, mentors and mentoring organizations named by President Joe Biden on Feb. 8 as recipients of the 2022 Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching (PAEMST) and Presidential Awards for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM). Dong is one of only 12 individuals who received the PAESMEM award.

Dong, a former graduate student of materials science and engineering professor Bruce Dunn, is a professor of chemical and materials engineering and the faculty director of the Office of Undergraduate Research at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (Cal Poly Pomona). 

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