Awards & Grants
- Teaching Incentive Program (TIP) Award, Purdue Northwest, 2018
- Club Advisor of the Year (Astronomy Club), Purdue North Central, 2012
- Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award, Purdue North Central, 2009
- Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award, Rutgers University, 2006
- GAANN Fellowship, Rutgers University, 2003
- Richard E. Plano Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, Rutgers University, 2003
- Rutgers University Graduate Excellence Fellowship, High Energy Theory, 2000-2002
- NSF Graduate Fellowship, Honorable Mention (High Energy Theory), 2000
- Mary Evelyn Wells & Gertrude Smith Prize in Mathematics, Vassar College, 2000
- Lucy Kellogg English Prize in Physics, Vassar College, 2000
- Phi Beta Kappa, 2000
- Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship (US Congress), 1999
- Ethel Hickox Pollard Memorial Physics Award (Outstanding Physics Major), Vassar College, 1999
Selected Grants & Internal Funding Awards
- Senior Personnel, Learning physics by practicing it with physical apparatus or using interactive video: is there a difference?, NSF IUSE, $597,781 (2017 – 2021). PI: David Brookes (Cal. State – Chico)
- PI, Mass Ejecta, Gravitational, and Electromagnetic Characteristics of Magnetized, High-Mass Ratio Binary Neutron Star Mergers, COES Summer Faculty Research Grant, $10,000 (2018).
- Co-PI, Conceptual Algebra Readiness with Engineering and Science (CARES), Indiana Dept. of Educ., $401,000 (2016 – 2018). PI: David Feikes (Purdue Northwest)
- Co-PI, MASTERing Videos, Indiana Dept. of Educ., $447,889 (2014 – 2016). PI: David Feikes (Purdue Northwest), co-PI: Jan Radford (Michigan City Area Schools)
- PI, Stochastic Modeling of Student Learning, Purdue Research Foundation, $8,000 (2009)
- Co-PI, Science for Lifelong Learning & Leading (S4L), Indiana Dept. of Educ., $323,973 (2008 – 2010). Co-PI: Rosa Rivera-Hainaj (Purdue North Central), Jane Larson (Michigan City Area Schools)