Selected Awards and Honors
2018–2023
Visiting Artist / Scholar – Computational Neuroscience Initiative and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
2016
Points of Light art print selected for The Arts Council of Fairfax County Arts Award
2015
Arts Achievement Award – Arts Council of Fairfax County, VA
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Office of the Director Honor Award – National Institute of Health
For conceiving and developing an exhibition that unites science, art, and history in the Porter Neuroscience Research Center at NIH
NINDS / NIH Merit Award – National Institutes of Health
For conceiving and developing an exhibition that unites science, art, and history in the Porter Neuroscience Research Center at NIH
Invited Fellow – The Salzburg Global Seminar, Salzburg, Austria
Topic: The Neuroscience of Art: What are the Sources of Creativity and Innovation?
2013
Strauss Fellowship – Arts Council of Fairfax County
2012
Artist in Residency Fellowship – NIH/NINDS
Transforming STEM Education through Creativity and Cross-disciplinary Visualization – VCCS* Professional Development Grant
Innovative Teaching Methodologies to Enhance STEM Education and Outcomes – VCCS* Professional Development Grant
The Art of Water Collaboration with musician Jonathan Kolm – VCCS* Professional Development Grant
2011-2013
Chancellors Commonwealth Professorship
2011
Making the Invisible, Visible Lecture Tour – VCCS* Professional Development Grant
The Art of Water – Lecture Development – VCCS* Professional Development Grant
Making the Invisible, Visible Lecture Research – VCCS* Professional Development Grant
2010
Travel Grant – Chemical Heritage Foundation – Philadelphia, PA
2008
Strauss Fellowship, Arts Council of Fairfax, Fairfax, VA
2007
Invited Research Fellow – American Philosophical Society Library
2006
Pollack-Krasner Foundation Grant
2001
Printmaking Artist Residency, Pyramid Atlantic, Awarded by NEA
2000
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Professional Fellowship
New Jersey Council for Printmaking Residency
1994
Arlington Commission for the Arts Project Grant
1992
Fairfax County Council for the Arts Video Grant
* Virginia Community College System