Honor & Awards:
2007 Faculty Creative Project Award, MCLA; 2007 Who’s Who Among American Teachers & Educators; 2006 Davis Educational Foundation, Faculty Grant “Building the Technology Enhanced Visual Arts Classroom”; 2004-05 U.S. Department of Education Title III Strengthening Institutions Grant (Worked on team; grant awarded to MCLA $1.8 million, with $105,000 for fine & performing arts labs.); 1995 Utah 95 Juror’s Award; 1995 National Dean’s List; 1994 George B. and Marie Eccles Caine Foundation Scholarship; 1994 Purchase Award, Illinois State University Center for the Visual Arts, Nat’l Graduate Works on Paper; 1993 Presidential Fellowship, USU; 1992 Certificate, College Teaching Seminar for Graduate Instructors,USU; 1992 Eliot Honors Scholar at WashU; Yale/Norfolk Award (runner-up) at WashU; Millikin Prize (runner-up) WashU; 1990 WashU Scholarship; 1990 Certificate for Outstanding Achievement in German, Notre Dame; Delta Phi Alpha, German National Honor Student Society.