2013 Faculty Service Award For 5 Years
Of Outstanding Performance And Lasting Contribution
To California State University Dominguez Hills, College Of Natural And Behavioral Sciences, CSUDH
2013 Certificate Of Appreciation For
Affordable Learning Solutions Initiative,
California State University Dominguez Hills
2012 Faculty Legacy Fund Award,
CSUDH Emeritus Faculty Association Project Title: Molecular Mechanism
Underlying Citrate Utilization Differences Between Enterococcus
faecalis and Enterococcus faecium.
2011 Faculty Legacy Fund Award, CSUDH
Emeritus Faculty Association Project Title: Antibiogram and MSA Analysis
of The Enterococci.
2011 Sally
Casanova Memorial RSCAAP Mini-grant, CSUDH Project title: Investigation of the
Antiobiotic Suceptibility, Carbon Source Utilization, and Motility
Phenotype for Enterococcus faecalis Versus Enterococcus
faecium
2010-2011 Lois Stokes Alliance for Minority
Participation Mini-Grant, CSUDH Project Title: Bacteriological Differentiation of Enterococcus faecalis From Enterococcus
faecium on the Basis of Antibiogram Analysis and Observations of Growth and Fermentation
Characteristics on Mannitol
Salt Medium.
2009 Sally
Casanova Memorial RSCAAP Mini-grant, CSUDH Project title: Study of Reovirus mu2 Localization and Host Cell Receptor Gene Expression and Antiviral Response
2008 Sally Casanova Memorial RSCAAP
Mini-grant, CSUDH Project title: Study of the Physiological
Relevance of reovirus mu2 Protein Localization to the Cell Nucleus
2007-2008 Lois Stokes Alliance for Minority
Participation Mini-Grant, CSUDH Project Title: Studies of Reovirus mu2 protein and the Cell Nucleus
2006 College Natural and Behavioral Sciences Research
Start-Up Grant, Project title: Study of Reovirus-Host Cell
Interactions.
2006 XXV Annual ASV
Postdoctoral Travel Award, American Society for Virology
2004-2007 National Research Service Award (3-year Postdoctoral Fellowship F32) National Institutes of Health
2004 NRSA Infectious Diseases and Basic Biological Mechanisms Training Grant (T32 Postdoctoral Fellowship), National Institutes of Health/Harvard Medical School
2004 XXIII Annual ASV Postdoctoral Travel Award, American Society for Virology
2001-2003 Marquis Who's Who in America, Marquis Biographical Journals
2003 Marquis Who’s Who in Science and Engineering, Marquis Biographical Journals
1999 Membership Award, New York Academy of
Sciences
1996 The Cardinal Spellman Award For Potential in
Graduate Program in Science,
University of Dallas
1995 Summer Medical Scientist and Research
Training Program Scholarship, Baylor College of Medicine
1994 Award for Research Excellence in Biomedicine,
The Medical University of South Carolina
1994 Summer Biological Research Fellowship,
College of Charleston
1992 The John B. O’Hara Chemical Sciences Award,
The John B. O’Hara Chemical Sciences Program
1992 The Nevada Scholar’s Award, Nevada State
Legislature and Governor of the State of Nevada
1992 The Honor’s Medallion Award, U.S.
Department of Education
