Grants and awards

2015  USAID Securing Water for Food: Grand Challenges for Development grant ($500,000) (Co-PI with Aleia McCord and Vianney Tumwesige): For commercializing a water-saving technological innovation for biogas systems in East Africa

2013  USAID Development Innovations Ventures grant ($110,000) (Co-PI with Aleia McCord and Vianney Tumwesige): For developing a system of bioslurry distribution among smallholder women farmers in Uganda

2012  Grand Challenges Canada Rising Stars in Global Health grant ($105,000) (Co-PI with Aleia McCord, Vianney Tumwesige, and Alex Tumukunde): For initiating and evaluating a pilot waste-to-energy project with a new business model in Uganda

2012   Swedish Development Agency (SIDA) Innovations Against Poverty grant ($28,000) (Co-PI with Aleia McCord and Vianney Tumwesige): For initiating and evaluating a pilot waste-to-energy project with a new business model in Uganda

2017  Winner, A.C. Jordan Prize in African Studies for best graduate student paper or Master's thesis

2017  Participant, Future Faculty Career Exploration Program, Rochester Institute of Technology

2017  Participant, Transatlantic Core Group on US-Germany relations, BMW Foundation 

2017, 2016  Marie Kohler Wisconsin Institute of Discovery Fellowship for interdisciplinary scholarship and community engagement

2016-17  Advanced Opportunity Fellowship, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies

2016  Participant, Chicago Council on Global Affairs Next Generation Global Food Security Delegation

2014  Finalist, USDA/Howard Buffett Foundation Agricultural Innovations Prize (with Aleia McCord)

2013  Ira and Ineva Reilly Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Grant to foster public engagement and advance the Wisconsin Idea 

2013  Wisconsin Energy Initiative Seed Grant (with Calvin Cherry, Michael Rios, Giri Venkataramanan, and Aleia McCord)

2013  Grand Prize, Wisconsin Without Borders Exemplary Achievement in Globally Engaged Scholarship (with Aleia McCord)