FELLOWSHIPS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
2024:
DOE-Visiting Faculty Program (VFP), Research-track fellowship: Evaluation of novel bacteria for lignin and plastic upcycling; $16,500.(competitive external peer-reviewed fellowship)
DOE-Visiting Faculty program (VFP) research-track student fellowship for 10 weeks at the Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL), USA: Evaluation of novel bacteria for lignin and plastic upcycling; $7,000 + housing expenses ($2,500) awarded to my undergraduate research student Mr. Chukwuemeka Okpala to work in my DOE-VFP research project at ORNL in summer 2024. (competitive external peer-reviewed fellowship)
2022:
Innovations in Teaching Fellowship, UWG, Spring 2022, $4,750
2017:
American Society of Plant Biologists Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (ASPB-SURF) in April. ($5,275) (competitive external peer-reviewed fellowship application prepared and submitted with my research student).
2012:
Awarded Research Scholarship (Visiting Professor) by Dr. Bernhard Grimm [Humboldt University (Berlin, Germany)], travel grant titled “Retrograde Signaling in Plant” from the Research Unit FOR 80 [funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)] (€2500).
1995:
Junior Research Fellowship Award in Life Science by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Delhi (India).
OTHER PROFESSIONAL FUNDING
2020: XIDS 2002 Teaching fund for professional development, August. ($2,000)
2019: XIDS 2002 Teaching fund for professional development, August. ($2,250)
2018: Student Research Assistance Program research supply fund, May. ($604.56)
2016:
LSAMP fund for research, March. ($306)
Year end fund from the Biology Department, March. ($536.80)
Research fund from the Biology Department for research, April. ($215)
2015:
Academic Affairs fund for research, September. ($524)
Faculty research support from the UWG-ORSP, May. ($500)
Summer research support from the Biology Department, May. ($500)
Research support from the COSM, UWG, May. ($500)