Awards & Fellowships
Grants
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2020, awarded Peter Buck Deep Time Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History (USA) for 2 years of independently proposed postdoctoral research[1] ($52,000)
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2017-2018, Recipient of Neuromechanics GAANN training grant, University of Chicago (U.S. Department of Education, PI and Director: Prof. Melina Hale)($14,000)
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2017, Women in Science Graduate Fellowship, funding for full-time one-year position and stipend as researcher at the Field Museum of Natural History (FMNH, Chicago)($30,000)
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2016, Hinds Endowment Grant, “Morphological Disparity in Permian Synapsids and the Evolution of High Functional Diversity”, funding for research related travel to museums ($1,700)
Academic Honors
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Finalist for Romer Prize from Society of Vertebrate Paleontology. Recognizes outstanding scientific contribution in Vertebrate Paleontology by a predoctoral student.
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2018, Richard Baumbach Award from the Paleontological Society, grant for support of museum-based research
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2018, Awarded grant from the Paleontological Society for support of local conferences, $1,000 used organizing Great Lakes Student Paleoconference 2018
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2015, Winner of Edwin H. and Margaret M. Colbert Prize for best student poster, “A new cistecephalid dicynodont (Therapsid:Anomodontia) from the Zambezi Basin (Zambia) and its fossorial adaptations”, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Annual Meeting, Dallas
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2014, Graduated with Full College Honors from the University of Washington, the most advanced honors degree that can be awarded
