• Biological Sciences Golden Apple Award for Excellence in Teaching 2004
  • UCI Campus Village Professor of the Month, March 2004
  • George Bartholomew Award for excellence in comparative physiology from the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology 2003
  • Mildred Mathias Award for the top ranked proposal in the natural sciences (UCMEXUS) 2002
  • Research Fellowship from the Miller Institute for Basic Research, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 1999-2001.
  • Alfred Sherwood Romer Prize from the Society of Vertebrate Paleontologists for the best student paper at the 1998 meeting: "Reinforcement of calcified cartilage".
  • University Fellowship from the University of Massachusetts 1998-1999.
  • Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Fellowship , UMASS
  • Sigma Xi - Full Member, 1999

 

 

 
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