2012
Graduate Student Award for Outstanding Research, Society
for Biomaterials
2011
Edgar O’Rear Travel Grant, Institute of Biosciences and
Bioengineering, Rice University
2011
Richard R. Dickason, Jr., M.D., Ph.D. Outstanding
Physician Scientist Award, Baylor College of Medicine
2010
Travel Award, Advanced Technology Applications for
Combat Casualty Care Meeting
2010
Mary
Ann Liebert, Inc. Outstanding Student Award, Tissue
Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International
Society, North America
2010
Outstanding Bioengineering Undergraduate Alumnus Award
2010
Mary F.D. Morse Graduate Fellowship, Institute of
Biosciences and Bioengineering, Rice University
2010
Outstanding Junior Award, Department of Bioengineering,
Rice University
2010
Honorable
Mention Award for Outstanding Student Presentation,
American Association for the Advancement of Science –
Southwestern and Rocky Mountain Division Annual Meeting
2010
Publication Award, Medical Scientist Training Program,
Baylor College of Medicine
2010
Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, Barry M. Goldwater
Foundation
2010
Outstanding Presentation Award, Annual Armed Forces
Institute of Regenerative Medicine Conference
2009
Alliance for NanoHealth Postdoctoral Fellowship
2009
Best
Poster Award for Superior Presentation, Annual Research
Conference of W.M. Keck Center for Interdisciplinary
Bioscience Training
2009
Mary F.D. Morse Graduate Fellowship, Institute of
Biosciences and Bioengineering, Rice University
2009
Edgar O’Rear Travel Grant, Institute of Biosciences and
Bioengineering, Rice University
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
1995
Best Undergraduate Polymer Research, POLYED Award,
American Chemical Society
1995
Best 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
