Honors and Awards
UAF: University of Alaska Fairbanks
UV: University of Vienna
WSC: Wayne State College
GU: Georgetown University
2025
P. Tosello Research Center Seed Fund, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de PR – Ponce, awarded $5000 with co-PI Prof. Joel De Jesus Matos for the design, generation and implementation of synthetic group work in introductory mechanics and thermodynamics.
2025
Troth Yeddha R1 Faculty Award, UAF, awarded $10,000 to provide PhD student Keshab Pokharel with summer 2025 research stipend to further his PhD thesis on student interest in physics.
2023
Nominated for eCampus Learnies award for development of “rich instructional media” (University of Alaska
Fairbanks). (43:37 of https://media.uaf.edu/media/t/1_e7e0nw5k/53161382)
2023 - 2024
Faculty Development Travel UNAC Award, UAF, awarded $2000 to assist travel for the American
Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) and Physics Education Research Conference (PERC) in Sacramento, California for Summer AY23/24
2021
Prize for Good Teaching (€1,500 awarded to three teachers at the University of Vienna, 2021) for fair and transparent grading, providing detailed feedback, effective use of interactive online tools during the Corona pandemic, mastery of content, and creating an “extremely friendly and respectful environment with students.”
2019
Mobility Fellowship, University of Vienna, awarded to finance three months of collaborative research in Kyoto Japan
2016
New Initiative Grant, WSC, awarded $1000 to finance travel to Japan to present research findings from Evaluating Tutorials for the Matter and Interactions Curriculum project
2014
Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship Grant, GU, awarded $760 to finance Evaluating Tutorials for the Matter and Interactions Curriculum project
Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship Grant, GU, awarded $2500 to finance Curriculum Development for Introductory Mechanics for Pre-med Students project
2012
Finalist in Physics Education Research Conference (PERC) Proceedings Paper Award Competition
2010 June
Graduate Student Travel Award for The Conference on Transforming Research on Undergraduate STEM Education, Maine
2005
UIUC’s NPRE Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award
2006 - 2007
American Nuclear Society Scholarship recipient
2006 - 2007
MUSC Nuclear Engineering Science Program Scholarship recipient
2006 - 2007
National Academy for Nuclear Training Scholarship recipient
2003
Induction into engineering honorary society Tau Beta Pi
2002 - 2007
UIUC Chancellor's Scholar (awarded to ~1% of university students)
2006
UIUC Campus Honors Program summer travel award
2002 - 2007
James Scholar in Engineering College (~ 5% of engineering students meet requirements)
2002
Induction into Golden Key and Phi Kappa Phi honor societies
2002 - 2007
Dean’s list each semester of undergraduate school