Honors and Awards:
- Most cited article in ChemMedChem (2007)
- Most accessed article in Molecular Pharmaceutics (2008-2014)
- Cover Art in Particles and Particle Systems Characterization, Vol 30 (2013)
- Listed in a Nature Biotechnology article as Top Translational Junior Faculty in 2013
- Frontispiece in Advanced Functional Materials, In Press (2014)
- Guest Speaker, Nanyang Technological University, Convocation 2015
- Biomedical Engineering Society 10th Annual Meeting-Singapore-Poster Judge (May 2016)
- The Louis Stokes South Carolina Alliance for Minority Participation Program-Mentor of the Year Award (2016)
Graduate Student Awards:
- Clemson’s BIOE best graduate student seminar presentation award
- Third best presentation Clemson’s BIOE graduate student seminar presentation award
- Page Morton Hunter Bioengineering graduate researcher award
Undergraduate Student Awards:
- Best undergraduate student poster presentation at the SFB-Clemson’s Biomaterials Day 2011
- Best undergraduate student oral presentation at the SFB-Clemson’s Biomaterials Day 2012
- Undergraduate Student’s Winifred Burks-Houck Women’s Leadership Award
- Advancing Student Award
- LS-SCAMP Book Award (6 students)
- Intercultural Achievement Award
- S.W. Shalaby Outstanding Bioengineering Sophomore Award
- Larry S. Bowman Outstanding Junior Award
- Poly-Med Outstanding Bioengineering Senior Award
- Jonathan Black Undergraduate Leadership Award
- Barry W. Sauer Undergraduate Researcher Award
- AFROTC Achievement Award
- General Military Cadet of the Month Award
- Alma Bennett Leadership Award
- President's Volunteer Service Award
- LS-SCAMP 2016 Undergraduate Research Showcase and Symposium-Best Poster Presentation
- National LS-SCAMP Research Symposium-Best Poster Presentation
- American Society for Microbiology (ASM) Spring 2016 Excellence in Poster Presentation
Scholarships/Fellowships/Grants:
- Fund for Eductation Abroad Scholarship
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) scholarship
- The Hiliary Echo Douglas scholarship
- CH2M Hill Leadership Scholarship
- Berbeco Senior Research Fellowship
- University Innovation Fellows
- McAlister Foundation Annual Scholarship for Engineering
- LS-SCAMP Scholarship (6 students)
- NSF-IRES Scholarship (4 students)
- SC Space Grant Consortium Undergraduate Student Research Fellowship (2 students)
- NSF Graduate Fellowship (5 students)
- Kathryn Sullivan Scholarship
- Goldwater scholarship
- James B. Edwards Scholarship
- Dr. Miller’s Scholarship for academic excellence and selfless commitment to others of African American and Latino (2013)
- American Council of Engineering Companies of South Carolina scholarship
- Clemson’s PEER scholarship (2 students)
- Clemson’s OGE Study Abroad Scholarship (7 students)
- Summer Research Internship scholarship from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore (10 students)
- Gillman's Scholarship (2 students)
- Call Me Doctor Fellowship
- Science Without Borders Scholarship
- LS-SCAMP Research Grant
- Honor's Research Grant (11 students)
- Howard Hughes Medical Grant
- Honor’s Educational Enrichment Travel Grant (11 students)
- ACC Travel Grant
- Honor’s Travel Grant (7 students).
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