Grant & Awards

 External Grants

NSF Convergence Accelerator Track M: Biofilm-based Corrosion Control using 3D Printed Biotechnology, 

Role: Co-PI (RIT subaward- Mathematical and predictive modeling role), PI Kaoru Ikuma, January 15, 2024 - December 31, 2025. Link 

NSF REU Site: Extremal Graph Theory and Dynamical Systems at RIT, February 1, 2023 - January 31, 2026

Role: Senior Personnel, PI: Darren Narayan

 Internal Grants

AdvanceRIT Connect Award, awarded by AdvanceRIT, Project: Pre-tenure Female Peer-support Group in Mathematics, May 1st 2021 - April 30th 2023

Role: Co-PI, PI: Lucia Carichino

AdvanceRIT Connect Award, awarded by AdvanceRIT, Project: Sister Scholars Connect: Black Women Faculty Writing Retreat , April 27th 2023 - April 30th 2024. Link

Role: Co-PI, PI: Katrina Overby

Grant Writer’s Bootcamp Seed Funding Award, awarded by the RIT Sponsored Research Services, Project: Modeling, Computation and Analysis of In‑host Influenza Infection Dynamics in immunocompromised patients, Incorporating Cellular Regeneration, Immune Response and Density Dependence, May 1st 2021 - August 31st 2022 

Role: PI: Blessing Emerenini.

Grant Writer’s Bootcamp Seed Funding Award, awarded by the RIT Sponsored Research Services, Project: Racial Equity in Mathematical Sciences, May 1st 2023 - August 31st 2024

Role: Co-PI: Blessing Emerenini, PI: Nonhle Channon Mdziniso

Dean’s Research Initiation Seed Funding Grants, awarded by the RIT College of Science, Project: Deterministic and Stochastic Epidemiological Frameworks for Biofilm-Phage Interactions, November 18th 2020 - December  1st 2021. PI: Blessing Emerenini

 Other grants and awards

URSA Engage, Oregon State University, 2019

Travel grants - SMB, SIAM, AIM-SQuaRe, 2012, 2014,2018, 2019, 2020, 2024, 2025

Workplace Leadership Award - September  2024

Highly Qualified Personnel Scholarship (HQP) by Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, 2011

Erasmus Mundus Scholarship of European Consortium, 2008

Anonymous Nominations

• Eisenhart Teaching Award

• RIT-COS Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (twice)