Awards, Honors, Recognition
Awards:
- CAST Director's Award Winners, AIChE Annual Meeting, 1999, Dallas, TX.
- Outstanding Ph.D. Student Award.
Chemical and Metallurgical Eng. Dept.
University of Nevada-Reno, 1998.
Honors:
- Spring 2001 Senior Scholar Mentor. In Spring 2001, University of Nevada, Reno
Alumni Association for excellence in teaching.
- Nomination for the Tibbits University Distinguished Teacher Award.
Nomination was proposed by the Dean of the Mackay School of Mines
in recognition for excellence in teaching. University of Nevada, Reno, 2001.
- Member of National Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi
- Honor Scholarship for Outstanding Student Performance
University of Costa Rica, 1985-1988.
Other Recognition:
- Merit Review Panel Member. U.S. Department of Homeland Security,
Center for the Study of High Consequence Event Preparedness and
Response, May 2005.
- New Century Scholars Workshop. Selected to attend the New Century
Scholars Workshop sponsored by Stanford University and the National Science
Foundation in the summer of 2000.
- Ideas for Professors. Selected to participate in the Ideas for
Professors workshop organized by the Excellence in Teaching Program of the
University of Nevada, Reno.