Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society Recognition for Excellent Teaching, 2020
2020 Emory School of Medicine Researcher Appreciation Day Recognition, 2020
Awarded the Charles B. Heiser, Jr. Mentor Award by the Society for Economic Botany, 2019
Awarded the Emory Williams Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award at Emory University, 2019
Faculty Appreciation Award from the Office of Undergraduate Admissions at Emory University, 2018
Nominated for the Emory Williams Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award, 2018
Selected for the Emory University Alumni “40 Under Forty” recognition program, Emory University, 2017
2017 Emory School of Medicine Researcher Appreciation Day Recognition, 2017
Research/Scholarship Award 2015-2016, Emory School of Medicine Department of Dermatology, 2016
Emory Antibiotic Resistance Center, Travel Award for Advanced Course in Antibiotic Resistance, 2016
Competitively selected for Advanced Course on Antibiotics, Institut Merieux and Institut Pasteur, 2016
Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society Recognition for Excellent Teaching, 2015
Center for Faculty Development and Excellence, Scholarly Writing and Publishing Fund Award, 2015
Phytoneering Award, Global Research Initiative Competition, Bionorica SE, 2014
Global competitive award, only awardee from USA out of 20 awardees total
Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society Recognition for Excellent Teaching, 2014
Kavli Fellow, U.S. National Academy of Sciences, Indonesia Symposium, 2014
One of a few select US scientists to be invited to the Kavli Frontiers in Science Symposium by the Indonesian Academy of Sciences – U.S. National Academy of Sciences
Harvard Business School Alumni New Venture Competition, Global Finalist, 2011
Business plan competition with PhytoTEK, science startup for antibiofilm technology
Harvard Business School Alumni New Venture Competition, Washington DC club competition winner, 2011
Harvard Business School Alumni New Venture Competition, New York club competition winner, 2011
Emory University, Faculty Development & Excellence Award, 2011
International Conference on Gram Positive Pathogens Travel Award, 2010
Open Science Network in Ethnobiology, Travel Award, 2010
1st Place for Oral Presentation in the Category of Biology, Marine and Life Sciences, Florida International University Graduate Student Association Scholarly Forum, 2008
American Society of Pharmacognosy Graduate Student Poster Award, 2008
Botany in Action, Field Research Travel Award, 2007; 2008
The Edmund H. Fulling Award, 2007
Awarded for the best contributed oral paper by a junior professional at the annual meeting of the Society for Economic Botany
The National Charles R. Jenkins Award for Excellence in Anthropology, 2000
