Honors and Awards

Name Awarding Group Date
Mead Johnson Award American Society for Nutrition 2020
Emerging Luminaries Grant Proposal Partnership Challenge Indiana University School of Public Health – Bloomington 2020
Fellow The Obesity Society 2018
Best Presentation – Faculty/Staff category University of Alabama at Birmingham New Energetic Ideas for the New Year – 2016 2016
Dannon Institute Nutrition Leadership Institute Dannon Institute 2015
Creativity is a Decision Award University of Alabama at Birmingham 2015
1st Place Oral Presentation University of Alabama at Birmingham Postdoc Research Day 2014
Best Paper Award The Science Unbound Foundation 2014
Most Creative – Faculty/Staff category University of Alabama at Birmingham New Energetic Ideas Round II 2014
1st Place: Nutritional Epidemiology Postdoc Poster Competition American Society for Nutrition Nutritional Epidemiology Research Interest Section 2013
3rd Place: Invited Poster Session Alabama Public Health Association 2013
1st Place Poster: Postdoc Division University of Alabama at Birmingham Public Health Research Day 2013
2nd Place Oral Presentation University of Alabama at Birmingham Postdoc Research Day 2013
Back of the Envelope Award University of Alabama at Birmingham 2012
Creativity is a Decision Award University of Alabama at Birmingham 2012
Honorable Mention: Folsom Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Award University of Nebraska-Lincoln 2012
David Kritchevsky Graduate Student Award Nutrition Research 2011
Preparing Future Faculty Fellow University of Nebraska-Lincoln 2010
Widaman Trust Distinguished Graduate Assistant Award University of Nebraska-Lincoln 2009-2010
Outstanding Graduate Student Poster University of Nebraska-Lincoln 2009
Othmer Fellowship University of Nebraska-Lincoln 2008-2010
Honors and Distinction Iowa State University 2007
Iowa State University Honors Program Iowa State University 2003-2007
Academic Recognition Award State of Iowa 2003-2006

Honor Society Memberships

Name Induction
Golden Key International Honor Society 2004 Nov
National Society of Collegiate Scholars 2004 Nov
Alpha Lambda Delta Honor Society 2004 Apr
Phi Eta Sigma Honor Society 2004 Apr