2009 Brown Undergraduate Research Internship,
Rice University
2009 Student Travel Achievement Recognition,
Society for Biomaterials
2009 Outstanding Presentation Award, Annual Armed
Forces Institute of Regenerative Medicine Conference
2008 Travel Award, 3rd Aegean Conference on
Tissue Engineering, Rhodes, Greece
2008 Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research
Service Award, National Institutes of Health
2007 Gerondelis Foundation Scholarship
2007 Edgar O'Rear Travel Grant, Institute of
Biosciences and Bioengineering, Rice University
2007 Oral Abstract Scientific Presentation Award,
Annual Meeting of the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial
Surgeons
2006 Sallyport Award, Association of
Rice
Alumni
2006 Distinguished Senior Award, Rice
Engineering Alumni Association
2005 First Prize in Keck Center Annual
Research
Conference Poster Contest, Gulf Coast Consortia
2005 DFG Research Scholarship, Deutsche
Forschungsgemeinschaft
2005 Graduate Student Award for
Outstanding
Research, Society for Biomaterials
2004 James S. Waters Creativity Award,
Rice
University
2004 First Prize at the National
Institutes of
Health Biotechnology Graduate Training Program Poster Contest
2004 Ralph Budd Award for Best
Engineering
Thesis
2004 Delegates to the Global Tech
Leaders
Symposium, Rice University
2003 Travel Award, Biomedical
Engineering
Society
2003 Travel Award, Society for
Biomaterials
2002 DFG Research Scholarship, Deutsche
Forschungsgemeinschaft
2002 Graduate Student Award for
Outstanding
Research, Society for Biomaterials
2002 Tissue Engineering Special Interest
Group
Student Award, Society for Biomaterials
2001 Best Poster Award, Baylor College of
Medicine M.D./Pg.D. Symposium
2001 James S. Waters Creativity Award,
Rice
University
2000 Best Paper Award, Texas Medical
Scientist
Training Program Conference
2000 Graduate/Postdoc Award on
Innovative
Aspects of Controlled Drug Release, Controlled Release Society-Capsugel
2000 Best Poster Award, Materials
Research
Society Fall Meeting
1998 Graduate Student Award for
Outstanding
Research, Society for Biomaterials
1998 Excellence in Science Dissertation
Award
for Best Ph.D. Thesis, Sigma Xi
1998 Graduate Student Award for Best
Paper,
Southern Biomedical Engineering Conference
1997 Graduate Student Award for
Outstanding
Research, Society for Biomaterials
1997 Selected Excellence Paper, Society
for
Biomaterials
1997 Ralph Budd Award for Best
Engineering
Ph.D. Thesis, Rice University
1997 Ph.D. Thesis Award, Sigma Xi
1997 James S. Waters Creativity Award,
Rice
University
1997 Poster Award, Houston Society for
Engineering in Medicine and Biology
1996 Excellence in Bioengineering, Dr. William
B. Walsh Award, Advanced Tissue Sciences
1996 James S. Waters Creativity Award, Rice
University
1995 Distinguished Contribution, BFGoodrich
Collegiate Inventors Program
1995Best Undergraduate Polymer Research,
POLYED Award, American Chemical Society
1995Best Poster, Intermedics Award, Houston
Society for Engineering in Medicine and Biology
1993 Best Undergraduate Polymer Research,
POLYED Award, American Chemical Society
1993 James S. Waters Creativity Award, Rice
University
