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).