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1961 - Sigma Gamma Epsilon W.A. Tarr Award
1961 - N.S.F. Cooperative Graduate Fellowship (declined)
1961 - N.D.E.A. Fellowship
1963 - Sigma Xi - Associate Member (Full Member, 1966)
1966 - North Dakota Academy of Sciences A. Roger Dennison Award
1969 - KSU Teaching Development Award
1971 - KSU Summer Research Appointment
1972 - KSU Research Travel Grant (Great Britain)
1975 - Cleveland Museum of Natural History - Crinoids from the Cuyahoga Formation, northeast Ohio ($500)
1976 - KSU Academic Year Research Appointment
1979 - Ohio Department of Transportation - Tufa precipitation and its effect on drainage of highway embankments ($29,400)
1982 - Antarctic Medal of the United States
1983 - KSU Academic Year Research Appointment
1984 - National Science Foundation - Systematics and biostratigraphy of the arthropod genus Echinocaris ($70,500)
1984 - National Science Foundation - Paleoecology and paleobiogeography of decapod-rich assemblages on Seymour Island, Antarctica ($79,835)
1985 - National Geographic Society - Paleobiology of Devonian conulariids from Bolivia ($4,210)
1986 - Fellow, Explorers Club
1987 - National Science Foundation Travel Grant ($675)
1987 - National Science Foundation - Paleobiology of Cretaceous and Tertiary decapod crustaceans from Seymour Island, Antarctica ($65,002).
1988 - Ohio Board of Regents - Research Challenge - Graduate Program in Petroleum Geology ($80,000)-with Heimlich
1989 - KSU Academic Year Research Appointment
1989 - National Science Foundation - Paleobiology of Cretaceous and Tertiary Decapod Crustaceans from Seymour Island, Antarctica, Supplement ($3,000).
1989 - National Science Foundation - Paleobiology of Late Cretaceous decapod crustaceans from James Ross Island, Antarctica ($93,355).
1990 - National Geographic Society - Paleobiology of decapod crustaceans in southern South America ($9,800).
1991 - National Science Foundation - Workshop: Geology of the James Ross Basin, Antarctica ($20,590). 1991 - National Science Foundation - Paleobiology of Late Cretaceous decapod crustaceans from James Ross Island, Antarctica, Supplement ($7,450).
1992 - National Geographic Society - Paleobiogeography of Late Cretaceous decapod crustaceans from Mexico ($6,000).
1993 - National Science Foundation - Paleobiogeography of high latitude decapod crustacean assemblages ($41,398).
1993 - National Geographic Society - Paleobiogeography of Miocene decapod crustaceans from New Zealand ($9,383)
1994 - National Science Foundation - Paleobiology of decapod crustaceans from southern Patagonia: a link with Antarctica ($43,500)
1995 - National Science Foundation - Paleobiogeography of austral decapod crustaceans ($61,000)
1995 - National Geographic Society - Paleobiogeography and paleoenvironments of Early Cretaceous Reef Corals, southwestern Mexico ($12,000)
1996 - National Science Foundation - Paleobiogeography of austral decapod crustaceans, Supplement ($8,006)
1998 - National Geographic Society - Paleobiogeography of North Pacific decapod crustaceans ($16,865)
1998 - Golden Trilobite Award of the Paleontological Society for an outstanding publication, Fossils of Ohio, published by the Ohio Division of Geological Survey.
2000 - Distinguished Scholar Award of Kent State University
2001 - Arthur Gray Leonard Award - Department of Geology and Geological Engineering, University of North Dakota
2001 - G. D. Harris Award - Paleontological Research Institution

2006 - Alumni Board of Directors, College of Engineering, University of North Dakota

2006 – Member of Board of Trustees, Paleontological Research Institution

2008 - Smithsonian Institution Short-Term Visitor, National Museum of Natural History ($1373)

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1989-President's Scholarship, Hiram College, 1989-1993
1991-K. I. Brown Scholarship, Hiram College, 1991-1993
1992-Phi Beta Kappa, Hiram College
1993-Magna Cum Laude, GPA = 3.88, Biology Department Honors, Hiram College
1995-Graduate Student Senate Meeting Travel Awards, Kent State University, 1995-1999
1995-Amoco Alumni Scholarship, Kent State University Department of Geology
1997-Sigma Xi Graduate Student Award, Master of Science, Kent State University
1997-Outstanding Achievement in Master's Thesis Research, Kent State University
1998-National Geographic Society, Grant 6265-98, 1998 - 1999 - Paleobiogeography of North Pacific Decapod Crustaceans ($16,865) - Co-Principal Investigator with Rodney M. Feldmann
1999-Kent State University College of Arts and Sciences Student Advisory Council Distinguished Teaching Award, Nominee and Finalist
1999-Outstanding Ph.D. Student, Kent State University Department of Geology
2001-Doris M. Curtis Memorial Fund for Women in Science Award, Geological Society of America, Honorable Mention
2002-Research and Graduate Studies, Kent State University, February 2002, Page charge support ($693.33), A New Eocene decapods from southern California, Journal of Crustacean Biology.
2002-Division of Research and Graduate Studies, Kent State University, November 2002, Research Support less than $500.00, Population dynamics of Pleistocene decapods from Guam ($113)
2002-University Research Council, Kent State University, November, 2002, Research Support more than $500.00, Funds for purchase of new computer for research ($1800)
2003-University Research Council, 2003 Summer Research and Creative Activity Appointment, Kent State University, $6500 salary.
2002-2003 Information Literacy Fellowship Grant at BGSU and KSU, $5000.00BAInformation Literacy for Geology and Middle Childhood Education Students, participant with Rob Kairis, Maureen Kilcullen, and William Kist, all of KSU Stark.
2003-Division of Research and Graduate Studies, Kent State University, article reprint charges, "Homolidae de Haan, 1833..." in Journal of Paleontology, $69.50.
2004-Distinguished Teaching Award Finalist, KSU Stark Campus
2005-Distinguished Teaching Award, KSU Stark Campus

2006-Student Organization Advisor of the Year, KSU Stark Campus

2008-Smithsonian Institution Short-Term Visitor, National Museum of Natural History ($1000)

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