Awards
2005- Best Professional paper at the Illinois Chapter of the American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting
2004 - Best Professional paper at the Illinois Chapter of the American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting
2003 - Eastern Illinois Faculty Excellence Award for Research
2003 - Graduate School Commencement Marshall
2003 - College of Sciences Teacher/Scholar Award
2002 - Eastern Illinois Outstanding Graduate Faculty Mentor
2002
- Best Professional
paper at the Illinois Chapter of the American Fisheries
Society Annual Meeting
2001-
Eastern Illinois
Faculty Excellence Award for Research
2000-01 - Eastern Illinois
University Faculty Laureate
2000
- Best Professional
paper at the Illinois Chapter of the American Fisheries
Society Annual Meeting
2000 - Outstanding Faculty in the College of Sciences
2000 - Interfraternity Council and Panhellenic Council Outstanding Faculty of the Month (March)
1999 - Eastern Illinois Faculty Excellence Award for Balance (Excellence in teaching, research and service)
1999 - Best Professional paper at the Illinois Chapter of the American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting
1999 - Mortar Board Distinguished Faculty Award
1998 - Distinguished Honors Faculty Award for Teaching
1997 - Eastern Illinois Faculty Excellence Award for Teaching
1996 - Eastern Illinois Faculty Excellence Award for Teaching
1995 - Visiting Faculty Summer Fellowship. Savannah River Ecology Laboratory. University of Georgia
1992 - Eugene P. Odum Award for Outstanding Ecological Student Paper. Association of Southeastern Biologists Annual Meeting.
1992 - Frederick H. Stoye Award for Outstanding Student Paper (Genetics, Development, and Morphology Division). American Society of
Ichthyologists and Herpetologists Annual Meeting.
1990 - Outstanding Student Paper (Herpetology Division) American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists Annual Meeting.