Distingiushed Service Award, Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors.

University Technology Leader of the Year, Scoop News Group EdScoop 50 Awards.

First Place Research Division Open Papers, Annual Paper Competition, Broadcast Education Association.

Senior Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award, Committee on Women in Agricultural Economics, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.

Outstanding Author – Editor’s Award, Pediatric Medicine.

Fellow, Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors.

Fellow, American Society of Civil Engineers.

Inspiring Early Career Scientist Award, American Society of Agronomy, Environmental Quality Section.

U.S. Fulbright-Nehru Distinguished Scholar Award, Institute of International Education.

MED Associates Brady-Schuster Award, Division 28 (Society for Psychopharmacology and Substance Use) of the American Psychological Association.

Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Fellow, American Society of Agronomy.

Lillian Lodge Kopenhaver Outstanding Early-Career Woman Scholar Award, Lillian Lodge Kopenhaver Center for the Advancement of Women in Communication and Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication’s Commission on the Status of Women.

Henry Giese Structures and Environment Award, American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers.

Limitless Leadership Award, Ms. JD.

2022 Outstanding Associate Editor, Frontiers in Microbiology.

Membership, Sigma Xi Scientific Research Honor Society.

James M. Jay Diversity in Food Safety Award, International Association for Food Protection.

COBRE Rising Star Award, National Association of IDeA Principal Investigators.

Fellow, National Academy of Inventors.

Larry Tonniges Research Achievement Award, Nebraska Soybean Board.

Membership, Steinway and Sons Teacher Hall of Fame.

Fellow, Society for the Study of Reproduction.

Emerson Distinguished Service Medal, Water Environment Federation.

President, Soil Science Society of America.

Admiral in the Great Navy of the State of Nebraska.

Poet Laureate of Jamaica.

Poetry Book Society Choice for Winter 2023.

President, National Architectural Accrediting Board.

Enduring Achievement Award, Advancing Research Impacts in Society.

Sower Award in the Humanities, Humanities Nebraska.

Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter.

National Educational Administrator of the Year, National Association of Educational Office Professionals.

Distinguished Service to Music Medal, Kappa Kappa Psi.

Hero for Innovation in Healthy Food, Foundation for Innovation in Healthy Food.

Artist Grant, Puffin Foundation.

Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize, Center for Great Plains Studies.

40 Outstanding Women in Higher Education, Diverse: Issues in Higher Education.

Visiting Scholar, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.

Innovator Award, Wolfram.

President, Association for Undergraduate Education at Research Universities.

Design-Build Award, Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture.

Search for Excellence in Farm and Ranch Business Management Award, National Association of County Agricultural Agents.

Distinguished Manuscript (with co-author R. Mott), American Association for Agricultural Education.

Top 10 Innovative Ideas Poster (with D. Phoenix, M. Kreifels, N. Conner, M. Balschweid), American Association for Agricultural Education.

Eric Pas Dissertation Award, International Association for Travel Behaviour Research.

Fellow, Animal Behavior Society.

Heermann Sprinkler Irrigation Award, American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers.

EE 30 Under 30 Award, North American Association for Environmental Education.

Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award, Institute of International Education.

Award for Distinguished Early Career Contributions to Psychology, American Psychological Association.

Champion for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Award, European Geosciences Union.

Top 25 Physics Articles of 2023, Nature Communications.

North Central Region Hall of Fame Award, National Association of County Agricultural Agents.

Merit in Research Award, Nebraska Chapter of Gamma Sigma Delta.

Fellow, Association for Women in Mathematics.

Membership, Sigma Xi Scientific Research Honor Society.

Best Freeway Operations Committee Paper, Transportation Research Board.

Royce J. Tipton Award, American Society of Civil Engineers.

Margaret S. Petersen Award, American Society of Civil Engineers.

Emerging Scholar Award, American Educational Research Association, Educational Change SIG.

Top Research Poster, Kentucky Conference on Health Communication.

Excellence in Research by an Early Career Professional, Entomological Society of America Eastern Branch.

Best Paper Award (with co-author Christine Wittich), American Society of Civil Engineers Infrastructure Innovation and Adaptation for a Sustainable and Resilient World Conference.

Friend of Science Award, Nebraska Academy of Sciences.

2023 Catalyst Award, Nebraska Association of Teachers of Science.

Distinguished Leadership and Service Award, Association of Leadership Educators.

Fellow, The Paleontological Society.

Young Scientist Research Award, American Oil Chemists’ Society.

Distinguished Teaching in Journalism Award, Society for Professional Journalists.

Search for Excellence in Farm and Ranch Business Management Award, National Association of County Agricultural Agents.

Best of Show Award, On-Location Creative Works Competition, Broadcast Education Association.

Award of Merit, Hard Feature Category, Eric Sevareid Awards for Exceptional Broadcast Journalism.

Grand Prize, Best Television Documentary, Marina del Ray Film Festival.

Best Documentary Feature Film, Birsamunda International Film Awards.

Best War Feature Film, Five Continents International Film Festival.

Best Documentary, Indian Independent Film Festival.

Best of Show, Documentary, On-Location Awards, Broadcast Education Association.

Award of Merit, Documentary, Midwest Broadcast Journalists Association.

Guyton Distinguished Educator Award, American Physiological Society, Teaching of Physiology Section.

International Affairs Fellowship, Council on Foreign Relations.

Outstanding Paper Award, Agronomy Journal.

Fellow, Council of the Conference of Research Workers in Animal Diseases.

Impactful Research Prize, The Unjournal.

IDEA Faculty Excellence Award, Innovative Digital Education Alliance.

100 Brilliant and Inspiring Women, Women in 6G.

Fellow, Midwest Association for Public Opinion Research.

Dr. Joel Fishman Professional Publication Award (with co-author Melissa Serfass), American Association of Law Libraries – Government Law Libraries Special Interest Section.

ESPN Research Fellowship, ESPN/UNLV International Gaming Institute.

Fellow, National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts.

Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Early Career Award, American Society of Agronomy.

Technical Recognition Award, IEEE Communications and Information Security Technical Committee.

Senior Member, National Academy of Inventors.

Gold Prize for Classical Voice, Virtuoso International Music Awards.

First Place, Lifestyle or Specialty Programs Category, Eric Sevareid Awards for Exceptional Broadcast Journalism.

Early Career Research Award, Upjohn Institute.

25 Inspiring Women Scientists in Plant Biology, American Society of Plant Biologists.

2024 Nebraska Prosecutor of the Year, Nebraska County Attorneys Association.

Educational Aids Award: High Impact Programs, American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers.

Educational Aids Award: Electronic and Web-Based Programs (with Larry Howard, Leslie Johnson, Rick Koelsch Agnes Kurtzhal, Aaron Nygren, Amber Patterson, Michael Sindelar, Todd Whitney), American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers.

Ruth I. Michler Memorial Prize, Association for Women in Mathematics.

President, Association for Law, Property, and Society.

Fellow, Explorers Club.

Pro Bono Honor Roll, Association of American Law Schools.

Friend to Broadcasters Award, Nebraska Broadcasters Association.

Nebraska Public Relations Professional of the Year, Public Relations Society of America.

Outstanding Contribution to Public Relations Education, National Communication Association.

Outstanding Service Recognition Award, Frances Clark Center for Keyboard Pedagogy.

Meritorious Solution Prize, Somatic Cell Genome Editing Program Consortium, Phase 1 Prize Competition, NIH.