Notable Honors

• North Carolina State University Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award – 2013 (15 selected, 80 nominated)
• Recipient of the 2009 UWRF Chancellor’s Award, Highest recognition for excellent service to the campus and community
• Recipient for the 2008 Conference for Undergraduate Research’s “Posters on the Hill” in Washington DC
• American Society of Agronomy Golden Opportunity Scholar in 2008

Award Winning Presentations

• 3^RD Place in the Graduate Student Oral Presentation at the Soil Science Society of America Meetings in 2011 (out of 33 total)
• 2^ND  prize in the 2010 Great Plains Soil Fertility Conference Poster Contest
• 1ST Prize in the 2009 National Undergraduate Research Symposium Contest for the American Society of Agronomy Meeting
• 1st Prize in the 2009 Darrel S. Metcalfe Student Research Manuscript Writing Contest

Scholarships

• $4,000 North Carolina State University PhD Recruitment Scholarship
• Recipient of the $2000 Wilford Gardener Travel Fellowship to attend World Soils Congress in Brisbane, Australia in 2010
• Awarded the 2010 Great Plains Soil Fertility Conference $750 Travel Award
• Winner of the 2009 Phi Kappa Phi National $5000 Graduate Fellowship
• Edwin Ted Reed Memorial Scholarship
• Ernst A. Teves International Memorial Scholarship, for outstanding Semester Abroad Europe participant
• Marcel K Lynum Leadership Scholarship, recognition for campus leadership initiatives
• Norman L. Christianson Memorial Scholarship, for an excellent student in the College of Agriculture