2019
Graduate Teaching Award for Student Support, Rice University
2019
Graduate Research Fellowship, National Science Foundation
2019
Best Engineering Poster Award (Seniors Category), Rice
Undergraduate Research Symposium, Rice University
2019
Best Engineering Poster Award (Underclassmen Category), Rice
Undergraduate Research Symposium, Rice University
2019
Travel Grant, Institute of Biosciences and Bioengineering, Rice
University
2017
Elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society
2017
Richard R. Dickason, Jr., M.D., Ph.D. Outstanding Physician
Scientist Award, Baylor College of Medicine
2017
Medical Scientist Training Program Thesis Publication Award,
Baylor College of Medicine
2017
Travel Grant, Institute of Biosciences and Bioengineering, Rice
University
2016
Graduate Student Travel Grant, Rice Engineering Alumni
2016
Young Investigator Award, Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative
Medicine
2016
Best Ph.D. Thesis Award, Department of Bioengineering, Rice
University
2016
Milton Huppert Graduate Student Award, Medical Mycological
Society of the Americas
2016
Collaborative Shared Prize, Institute of Biosciences and
Bioengineering, Rice University
2016
Trainee Award, World Biomaterials Congress
2016
Travel Grant, Institute of Biosciences and Bioengineering, Rice
University
2015
Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award, National
Institutes of Health
2015
First Place Poster Award, 2nd Annual Symposium of Gulf Coast
Cluster for Regenerative Medicine
2015
Travel Award, American Society of Microbiology
2015
Travel Award, Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine
International Society
2014
Travel Award, Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine
International Society - Americas
2014
Kathy Crawford Community Service Award, Baylor College of
Medicine
2014
Travel Award, 5th Aegean Conference on Tissue Engineering, Kos,
Greece
2014
Undergraduate Student Award for Outstanding Research, Society
For Biomaterials
2014
Collaborative Shared Prize, Institute of Biosciences and
Bioengineering, Rice University
2014
Travel Grant, Institute of Biosciences and Bioengineering, Rice
University
2013
Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award, National
Institutes of Health
2013
Medical Scientist Training Program Thesis Publication Award,
Baylor College of Medicine
2013
Research Excellence Award, Rice Engineering Alumni
2013
Outstanding Bioengineering Junior Award, Rice University
2013
Outstanding Student Recognition Award, Texas Society of
Professional Engineers
2012
Scholar Award, P.E.O. International
2012
Rice Engineering Alumni's Research Excellence Scholarship, Rice
University
2012
Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, Barry M. Goldwater Foundation
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