Honors and Awards – Students «

Honors and Awards – Students

2023 Graduate Student Award for Outstanding Research, Society For Biomaterials
2022 Richard R. Dickason, Jr., M.D., Ph.D. Outstanding Physician Scientist Award, Baylor College of Medicine
2021 Richard R. Dickason, Jr., M.D., Ph.D. Outstanding Physician Scientist Award, Baylor College of Medicine
2021 Bioengineering Outstanding Thesis Award, Rice University
2020 Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award, National Institutes of Health
2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellowship, European Commission
2020 Graduate Student Award for Outstanding Research, Society For Biomaterials
2019 Young Investigator Award, Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine
2019 Future Faculty Fellow, George R. Brown School of Engineering, Rice University
2019 Outstanding Poster Award, Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium, Institute of Biosciences and Bioengineering, Rice University
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