Awards & Honors
Scholastic Awards and Honors
2023-2024 Faculty Leadership Fellow, Western Kentucky University, 2023.
FUSE Star Mentor, Ogden College of Science and Engineering, Western Kentucky University, 2023.
CITL Teaching Honors nomination, Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning, Western Kentucky University, Fall 2022.
CITL Teaching Honors nomination, Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning, Western Kentucky University, Spring 2022.
“Certificate of Reviewing,” in Recognition of the review contributed to the journal-Journal of African Earth Sciences.
CITL Teaching Honors nomination, Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning, Western Kentucky University, 2021.
2020-2021 Wiley Top Cited Article: The Depositional Record “Neogene vegetation shift in the Nepalese Siwalik, Himalayas: A compound-specific isotopic study of lipid biomarkers.
‘Ten Million Dollar Grant Club’ FY 19 Award, OSP, Western Kentucky University, 2019.
‘Ten Million Dollar Grant Club’ FY 17 Award, OSP, Western Kentucky University, 2017.
Certificate of Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing,” in recognition of the contributions made to the quality of the journal – Journal of African Earth Sciences, 2018.
‘WISE-Women in Science and Engineering Award 2017’ Ogden College of Science and Engineering, Western Kentucky University, 2017.
‘Prolific Proposer’, OSP, Western Kentucky University, 2016.
‘In Recognition of Induction to Five Million Dollar Grant Club FY 15 Award’, OSP, Western Kentucky University, 2015.
‘Early Investigator FY15’ Award, OSP, Western Kentucky University, 2015.
‘Largest Dollar Amount in a Single Award FY14’ Western Kentucky University, 2014.
‘Junior Investigator FY14’ Western Kentucky University, 2014.
‘In Recognition of Induction into the Million Dollar Grant Club FY14’, Western Kentucky University, 2014.
‘First time Awardee FY14’ (for external grant at WKU), Western Kentucky University, 2014.
NSF-funded workshop grant for Early Career Geoscience Faculty: Teaching, Research, and Managing Your Career, offered through the "On the Cutting Edge" professional development program for geoscience faculty funded by a grant from the Division of Undergraduate Education of the National Science Foundation, AGU Headquarters, Washington DC. July-August 2013.
Newcomb Fellow, Newcomb College Institute, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2011-2012.
NSF participant Grant to participate in "Structural Geology and Tectonics Forum", and "Low Temperature Thermochronology" short course, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, 2010.
Jules Braunstein Memorial Award, Top 10 Best Poster Session Paper Presentation award (among ~2000 presenters), American Association of Petroleum Geologists, annual meeting, Long Beach, California, USA., 2008.
AAPG Outstanding Paper Award in student oral session, American Association of Petroleum Geologists, annual meeting, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 2005.
NSF workshop Grant to participate in “Morphology, Morphodynamics and Ecology of Mountain Rivers”, University of California, Berkeley., 2005.
Graduate Teaching Assistantship, Department of Geosciences, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas, 2002-2006.
National Science & Technology (NST) Fellowship Ministry of Science & Technology, Government of Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2000.
Second Honors, M.Sc. in Geology, Department of Geology, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1998.
MS Thesis Research Grant (for achieving First class 1st position in BSc. honors in Geology), Delta Study Center Scholarship, Department of Geology, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1998.
First Honors, B.Sc. in Geology, Department of Geology, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1998.
Ruqayyah Memorial Foundation Scholarship, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1998.
University Merit scholarship in B.Sc., University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1994-1997.
Creative activities
Oil Painting titled “Tectonic Hypothesis of Human Evolution,” selected (via international competition among geologists) for “Geo sapiens, the fusion of Geology and Art” Exhibition, Two Wall Gallery, Vashon Island, Washington., 2009.