Congratulations on this day before Thanksgiving to Dr. Percy Pierre, vice president emeritus and professor emeritus of electrical & computer engineering at Michigan State University for being honored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for his extraordinary dedication to increasing the number of African-American and Hispanic American Ph.D.s in Engineering.

Dr. Pierre will receive the 2008 AAAS Mentor Award for Lifetime Achievement during a ceremony on February 19 at the 2009 AAAS Annual Meeting in Chicago.  Many people assume that he has retired from the university but he still maintains active both at MSU, where he continues to advise and teach, and at the University of Notre Dame where he is on the Board of Trustees.

His accolades are too numerous to mention but among them are Honorary Doctoral Degrees from the University of Notre Dame and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a director of CMS Energy Inc.