Honors and Awards

2016: Invited Participant, NSF/NIH BRAIN Initiative Investigators’ Meeting
2016: Invited Talk, National Institutes of Health
2016: Brains & Behavior Seed Grant, Georgia State University
2016: Invited symposium participant and speaker, From Tools and Gestures to the Language Ready Brain, Emory University
2016: Invited talk, Evolution of Social Complexity Seminar Series, Arizona State University
2015: Invited talk, Neuroscience Institute, University of Florida
2014: Organizer/host, Workshop on Action, Brain, Language, and Evolution, Emory University
2013: Invited participant, NSF Workshop on Phylogenetic Principles of Brain Structure and Function at Janelia Farms
2013: Emory Nominee, NIH Director’s DP5 Early Independence Award
2012: Invited talk, Bioanthropology Seminar, Emory University
2012: Guest lecture, From Botox to Behavior, Emory University
2012: Second Place, Best Student Poster, XXIV Congress of the International Primatological Society, Cancun, Mexico
2012: Pilot Research Grant, Center for Systems Imaging, Emory University
2012: Invited Talk, Frontiers in Neuroscience Seminar Series, Student Research Featured for Interviewing Graduate Applicants
2010 – 2013: Ruth L. Kirchstein National Research Service Award Predoctoral Fellowship
2010 – 2012: Dissertation Fieldwork Grant, The Wenner-Gren Foundation
2010-2012: Osmundsen Initiative Award, The Wenner-Gren Foundation
2010: Travel sponsored by Tetsuro Matsuzawa, Ph.D., IPS President, XXIII Congress of the International Primatological Society, Kyoto, Japan
2009: Guest Lectures, Neuroscience and Philosophy, Emory University
2008: Honorable Mention, NSF Graduate Research Predoctoral Fellowship
2007 – 2008: NIGMS Training Grant, Emory University
2007: Honorable Mention, NSF Graduate Research Predoctoral Fellowship
2006 – 2011: Division Scholar Fellowship, Emory University
2006: Summa Cum Laude, University of California, San Diego
2006: US Grants Student Research Grant, University of California, San Diego
2005: Chancellor’s Research Scholarship, University of California, San Diego
2004 – 2005: William H. Stout Scholarship, University of California, San Diego
2002 – 2006: National Merit Scholarship, University of California, San Diego
2002 – 2006: Provosts’ Honors, University of California, San Diego