Received Babson's Women Who Make a Difference Award - 2016
Received Babson's Lewis Institute’s Changemaker Award for creating positive social change on Babson’s campus - 2015
Named one of Poets and Quants Most Outstanding B-School Professors under 40 in the World - 2015
Received Babson's Shelley Kaplan Sustainability Award for Research/Academics - 2014
Received Babson's Faculty Scholarship/Research Award - 2014
Received Babson's Dean’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching - 2012
Nominated by students for Babson's Undergraduate Faculty of the Year Award - 2008
Received Boston University's Outstanding Teaching Fellow Award - 2007
Received Babson's Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence - 2012
Nominated for Babson’s “Women Who Make a Difference” Award - 2008
Grants Received at Babson Babson Faculty Research Fund (BFRF) mini-grant - Support for field supplies & lab analyses - $2,000 Summer 2016
Babson Sustainability Faculty Research Fund (BFRF) summer stipend Summer 2015 Summer stipend to perform sustainability research with Danielle Krcmar - $10,000
Babson Faculty Research Fund (BFRF) mini-grant - Support for student lab assistant - $2,200 Summer 2015
Babson Faculty Research Fund (BFRF) summer stipend Summer 2014 Summer stipend and support for student field assistant and sample expenses - $13,616
Mellon Presidential Innovation Project – Three College Collaboration Feb 2014 Creating Tri-School “Big Ideas” sharing information event - $2,500
Mellon Presidential Innovation Project – Three College Collaboration Nov 2012 Created Tri-School Teaching and Learning Faculty Group with seminar series - $4,000
Babson Faculty Research Fund (BFRF) summer stipend Summer 2012 Summer stipend and support for student field assistant and sample expenses - $13,328
Mellon Presidential Innovation Project – Three College Collaboration Dec 2011 Three-college participation (11 students) in the USA Science & Engineering Festival in April 2012 - $10,000
Babson Faculty Research Fund (BFRF) mini-grant - Support for student field assistant - $1,960 Summer 2011
Babson Faculty Research Fund (BFRF) course release Fall 2010 Research on photosynthesis of herbaceous plants at Boston Area Climate Experiment (BACE) Babson Media
Video interview with Babson President Leonard Schlesinger, Dean of Faculty Carolyn Hotchkiss and A&H faculty member Fred Opie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Qw2qKK4XD8
Grants Received
Mini-Grant for Course Innovation Feb 2013 - Integration of on-line learning tools into current course
Mellon Presidential Innovation Project – Three College Collaboration - Nov 2012 Created Tri-School Teaching and Learning Faculty Group with seminar series
Babson Faculty Research Fund (BFRF) summer stipend - Summer 2012- Summer stipend and support for student field assistant and sample expenses
Mellon Presidential Innovation Project – Three College Collaboration - Dec 2011 - Three-college participation (11 students) in the USA Science & Engineering Festival in April 2012
Babson Faculty Research Fund (BFRF) mini-grant May 2011 - For research on leaf area of tree seedlings at Boston Area Climate Experiment (BACE)
Babson Faculty Research Fund (BFRF) course release Sept 2010 - For research on herbaceous photosynthesis at the Boston Area Climate Experiment (BACE)
National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant May 2006 - For garlic mustard ecology project
Boston University Biology Department Travel Grant Nov 2005
Invasive Plant Atlas of New England (IPANE) Travel Scholarship Sept 2005
Sigma Xi Grant in Aid of Research May 2004
Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Grant May 1999 - Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program, UNH