Awards and Honors

• National Cancer Institute Director's Intramural Innovation Award, in recognition and support of highly innovative research and technology designed to accelerate progress in cancer research, 2007
• National Institutes of Health Cancer Research Training Award, 2004-2007
• Award for Excellence in Research, Sigma Xi Graduate Student Research Forum, 2002
• Provost's Award for Graduate Research, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2001
• NATO Scholarship, NATO Advanced Study Institute, Erice, Italy, 2001
• National Science Foundation Travel Award, 2001
• National Study-Abroad Scholarship: presented by the Italian Government for one year of study completed at L'Universita' Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy. Presentation of honorary medallion of scholarship by the President of Italy, 1990
• Eva M. Byerly Scholarship: Achievement-based award for promising women scholars, 1989