Awards/Honors

Selected Awards and Honors

2024

Cecila & Wally Gilbert Artist in Residence, Cold Spring Harbor Lab, NY

2018–2024

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

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