Awards:
American Society for Engineering Education Postdoctoral Fellowship, Naval Research Laboratory,
Chemistry Graduate Student Research Award 2005-2006
Gordon Research Conference Carl Storm Underrepresented Minority Fellow,
Personally selected by the chair to give introduction to “Interaction of Urate with Li+, Na+, K+, Cu+, Be+2, Mg2+, and Ca+2 Metal Cations: A Theoretical Study (with M.K. Shukla, and Jerzy Leszczynski), Biological molecules in the Gas Phase, Gordon Conference, Lewiston, ME July 24-29, 2005.
3rd Place Poster Presentation at the First International Symposium on Recent Advances in Environmental Health Research
2nd Place Oral Presentation at the Alliance of Graduated Education in Mississippi, Winter Scholar Symposium