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• 2024 Award of Excellence from School of Nursing (SON), Emory University
• 2024 Travel Award NSF Inclusive STEM Teaching Project
• 2024 NSF Inclusive STEM Teaching Project Community Facilitator Participant
• 2023 Unsung Hero Award School of Nursing, Emory University
• 2023 Palm Workshop and Focus Group NSF-funded grant PALM Vision & Change
• 2023 Teaching with Canvas Fall 2023 Cohort, Emory University
• 2023 Center for Healthcare History and Policy Summer Teaching Fellow, SON, Emory University
• 2022 Woodruff Health Science Academy (WHEA) Fellowship in Educational Scholarship, Emory
• 2022-2023 Promoting Active Learning and Mentoring (PALM) Network Fellow, NSF
• 2021 Cell Biology Virtual Attendance Grant Award, American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)
• 2020 Inclusivity Grant Recipient, ASCB
• 2020 Crystal Apple Award, Excellence in Undergraduate Nursing Education, Emory University
• 2019-2020 CFDE Teaching Fellow, Emory University
• 2019 Minority Affairs Committee Travel Grant Award, ASCB
• 2017 NSF Active Learning in STEM Classes, Georgia Institute of Technology
• 2015 Jr. Faculty & Postdoctoral Career Developmental Workshop Travel Award, ASCB
• 2014 Carl Storm Minority Fellowship Travel Award, Gordon Research Board of Trustees
• 2013-2016 NIH-IRACDA Fellowships in Research and Science (FIRST) Postdoctoral Fellowship
• 2011 Honorary Bridges to Professoriate, Institute on Teaching and Mentoring
• 2010 Cover Image Dec 2010 issue, Journal Neurobiology of Disease
• 2008 Third Place Poster Presentation, ASCB

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