Meet the 2016 Laureate Award Winners: Steven Anderson, PhD

Outstanding Educator Award
Steven Anderson, PhD
University of Colorado
An outstanding educator facilitates learning, takes pride in the success of others, is a dedicated mentor, and an energetic advocate. Steven Anderson, PhD, the James C. Todd Professor of Experimental Pathology at the University of Colorado, displays all of these characteristics and is this year’s Endocrine Society’s Distinguished Educator Award winner.

Steve is truly an outstanding educator: he is committed to learning, career development, and mentorship; he is a champion of diversity; and he is an indefatigable campaigner for student and trainee success. Steve is the first to volunteer for Society initiatives such as the Minority Affairs Committee, Short Courses at minority institutions, the Task Force on Recruiting Minorities to Research Careers, the Early Career and Future Leaders Advancing Research in Endocrinology workshops, and the Minority Mentoring Reception. With Dr. Mark Lawson, he has been PI of the Minority Access Program (MAP) supported by a NIH T36 Award. He has served on the Minority Affairs Committee, the Training Development Committee, and the Advocacy and Public Outreach Core Committee.

Steve works selflessly in critical areas of Society work that have relatively low public profiles yet have the highest impacts on the future of our discipline. Look carefully at Steve’s picture. Even if you do not know him, it is likely that you have seen his commitment to education in action. After each ENDO plenary, he is corralling students, many of whom are at a scientific meeting for the first time. He sits with them to discuss the session and how it relates to their career goals. He helps them plan to get the most out of the meeting and to schedule further interactions with him later that day.

Steve, your colleagues, your students, and your mentees all thank you and congratulate you on this most deserved honor.

— Simon Rhodes