Funding & Awards
Fellowships
August 2023 - Present
National Science Foundation - Graduate Research Fellow (NSF-GRFP)
Purdue University
Total Value: $225,000
Grant no. DGE-1842166
Awarded 2022
August 2020 - Present
Sloan Indigenous Graduate Partnership Fellow
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Purdue University
Total Value: $40,000
Grant no. DGE-1842166
August 2020 - 2023
USDA NIFA - National Needs Graduate Fellowship
Purdue University
Total Value: $115,000
Grant no. 2020-38420-30722
August 2017 - May 2020
American Chemical Society Scholars Program
American Chemical Society
Simpson College and University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Scholarships
August 2024 - 2025
Chahta Foundation Doctoral Scholarship
Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma
Total Value: $10,000
Awarded 2024
August 2020 - Present
Higher Education Program Scholarship
Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, Higher Education Program
Total Value: $15,000
May 2019 - May 2020
University Creative Activities and Research Experience Grant
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Total Value: $4,800
Received Summer 2019 and Fall-Spring 2019
For Conference Travel Awards, please continue below.
Honors
May 2020
Graduation with High Distinction
Department of Biochemistry, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
April 2020
Induction to Order of Omega, National Greek Honor Society
Rho Epsilon Chapter, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
April 2020
Induction to Chi Omega Lambda, National Honor Society
American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
May 2019
Induction to Tau Sigma, National Transfer Student Honor Society
Lambda Chapter, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Travel Awards
July 2024
Graduate Student Travel Award
American Phytopathological Society
Total Value: $3,000
Conference: Plant Health
Memphis, TN
June 2024
Indigenous Voices in Botany Travel Award
Botanical Society of America, American Indian Science and Engineering Society
Total Value: $3,000
Conference: Botany 2024
Grand Rapids, MI
July 2023
Grad. Student Department Travel Award
Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University
Total Value: $500
Conference: IS-MPMI 2023 Congress
Providence, RI
July 2023
International Society for Molecular Plant Microbe Interactions
Total Value: $1,500
Conference: IS-MPMI 2023 Congress (Providence, RI)
June 2021
Botany and Plant Pathology Graduate Student Organization Travel Fund
Purdue University
Total Value: $100
March 2020
Dr. Patrice Berger Student Experience Fund, Travel Award
University of Nebraska Honors Program
Total Value: $500
Conference: American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology