Honors & Awards

  • Vaughan Lecturer, Rocky Mountain Conference on Analytical Chemistry – 2022
  • John Witt Professor of Chemistry, UIUC – 2018-2019
  • Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) – 2017
  • Transformative Research Award (T-R01) Recipient, National Institutes of Health – 2017-2021
  • University Scholar, UIUC – 2016-2018
  • Member, Incomplete List of Faculty Rated Excellent by Their Students, UIUC – Fall 2012
  • Centennial Scholar Award, UIUC – 2010-2018
  • Founders’ Medal, Intl. Conferences on Magnetic Resonance in Biological Systems – 2008
  • I.C. Gunsalus Scholar, UIUC – 2008-2009
  • Excellence in Teaching Award, School of Chemical Sciences, UIUC – 2007
  • Member, Incomplete List of Faculty Rated Excellent by Their Students, UIUC – Fall 2007
  • Member, Incomplete List of Faculty Rated Excellent by Their Students, UIUC – Spring 2007
  • Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow – 2007-2009
  • Keck Foundation Research Excellence Award – 2006-2007
  • Beckman Fellow, UIUC Center for Advanced Study – 2005-2006
  • Research Corporation Cottrell Scholars Award – 2005-2007
  • Faculty Fellow, National Center for Supercomputing Applications – 2005-2006
  • Excellence in Teaching Award, School of Chemical Sciences, UIUC – 2005
  • Member, Incomplete List of Faculty Rated Excellent by Their Students, UIUC – Spring 2005
  • Research Corporation Research Innovation Award – 2004-2006
  • NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award (MCB0347824) – 2004-2009
  • Eli Lilly Analytical Chemistry Award – 2004-2006
  • National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Fellowship, NRSA F32GM20134 – 1999-2002
  • National Science Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship (declined) – 1993
  • Howard Hughes Medical Institute Predoctoral Fellowship – 1993-1998
  • American Institute of Chemists Senior Chemistry Prize – 1992-1993
  • Finalist, Rhodes Scholarship Competition (Minnesota) – 1992
  • Violet O. Beltmann Junior Chemistry Prize – 1991-1992
  • Phi Beta Kappa, Junior Year Inductee – 1992
  • Howard Hughes Medical Institute Undergraduate Research Fellowship – 1991-1993
  • John H. Scott Sophomore Chemistry Prize – 1990-1991
  • Dewitt Wallace Scholar, Macalester College – 1990-1993
  • Chemical Rubber Company Freshman Chemistry Prize – 1989-1990
  • Frauenthal Foundation Scholarship – 1989-1991
  • National Merit Scholar, Macalester College – 1989-1993