Honors

Note of appreciation from UW System interim President Tommy Thompson, 2021
Certificate of Recognition – TRIO Student Support Services, 2017 and 2018
Fulker Award, Behavior Genetics Association, 2009 for “particularly meritorious paper”
Excellence in Teaching Award, College of Arts & Sciences, University of Memphis, 2005
Participate, Society for Neuroscience Press Conference on the Adolescent Brain, 2003.

T.W. Briggs Foundation Excellence in Teaching Award -- Nominated

Young Investigator Award – Research Society on Alcoholism, 2002
External Reviewer – Baylor University Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
Early Career Research Award – University of Memphis, 2001.
Junior Faculty Travel Award – American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Ethanol and Cell Signaling, Oct. 1999.

NIAAA Post-doctoral Fellowship (1 F32-AA05519-01), 1998-1999.
Neurobiology Training Grant Recipient-UNC-Chapel Hill 1997-1998.
NIAAA Pre-doctoral Fellowship (1 F31 AA05414-01A1), 1996.
Dissertation Fellowship, Miami University--Psychology, 1995-1996.
Research Society on Alcoholism--Junior Investigator Award, June 1997.
Research Society on Alcoholism/International Society for Biomedical Research on Alcoholism--

Graduate Student Travel Award, June 1996.
Jeff Stein Graduate Fellowship, May 1994--$1,000.00.
Achievement Awards, Miami University, 5 awards totaling $1,250.00.
Abstract selected by the Committee on National Advocacy of the Research Society on Alcoholism for distribution to national news services and media representatives.
Capretta Memorial Scholarship for Outstanding Graduate Student in Psychology, April 1996.
Letters of Commendation, Miami Psychology Department, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996.