HONORS, AWARDS, AND GRANTS

- Dec 2007 Grand Poster Prize at IAU Symposium 250: ``Massive Stars as Cosmic Engines''

- 2007 Fireman Award for Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation in Astronomy, Harvard University

- 2006 Harvard Graduate Student Council Conference Award

- 2006 AAS International Travel Grant

- 2002, 2003, 2005 Certificates of Distinction in Teaching, Harvard University

- 2002 NRAO Student Grant

- 2000 Dorothea Klumpke Roberts Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Astronomy, UC Berkeley

- 2000 Commencement Speech, Physics & Astronomy Department, UC Berkeley

- 2000 High Honors, UC Berkeley

- 1997 - 2000 Golden Key National Honor Society

- 1996 & 1999 UC Berkeley Dean's Honor List