Honors and Recognitions

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

Inaugural Distinguished Service Award, Texas Woman's University Counseling Psychology Program.

Outstanding Educator Award, Architectural Engineering Institute.

Fellowship, Benton Institute for Broadband and Society.

Excellence in Service Award, American Society for Engineering Education Midwest Section.

Distinguished Research Poster Award, Association of Leadership Educators Conference.

Most Innovative Student Paper Award, Academy of Management, Organizational Behavior Division.

Editor-in-Chief, Woomera Manual on the International Law of Military Space Activities and Operations.

Fellow, American Chemical Society.

Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, shared with Daniel Claes and Ilya Kravchenko, members of the Compact Muon Solenoid Collaboration.

Fellow, American Phytopathological Society.

Lilian Lodge Kopenhaver Early Career Woman Scholar, Center for Advancement of Women in Communication, Florida International University, and AEJMC Commission on the Status of Women.

Distinguished Service Award, American Psychology-Law Society.

Honorary Membership, Entomological Society of America.

Fellow, Nebraska State Bar Foundation.

Fellow, National Academy of Inventors.

R.C. Pollock Award, American Meat Science Association.

Peyton Evans Artist Residency, The Studios of Key West.

Fulbright Specialist, U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.

Faculty Research Fellow, Forsythe Family Program on Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs.

Emerging Leader in Food Safety Award, Institute for the Advancement of Food and Nutrition Sciences.

Young Chemical Biologist Award, International Chemical Biology Society.

Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, shared with Ken Bloom and Ilya Kravchenko, members of the Compact Muon Solenoid Collaboration.

Outstanding Achievement Award, Association for International Agricultural and Extension Education.

Outstanding Young Alumni Award, Department of Crop, Soil and Environmental Sciences, University of Arkansas.

Champion for Human Rights and Social Justice Award, Global Association of Human Trafficking Scholars.

Acton Research SIG Best Paper Award, American Educational Research Association.

Bessie B. Moore Service Award, National Association of Economic Educators.

Silver National Curriculum Award for The Economics of Gambling, National Association of Economic Educators.

Residential Design Architecture Awards Citation for “Duplex +”, Residential Design Magazine.

Residential Design Architecture Awards Citation for “Dundee Walls”, Residential Design Magazine.

National Design Awards Excellence Award and Category Winner, “Wanaka Wedge House”, Society of American Registered Architects.

Award of Honor, "Omaha Mobile Stage", Society of American Registered Architects – New York.

New York Award of Excellence, "Bemis LOW END", Society of American Registered Architects – New York.

President, National Architectural Accrediting Board.

Best Paper Award, Biological and Agricultural Engineering Division, American Society for Engineering Education.

John Tarnai Memorial Scholarship Award, Association of Academic Survey Research Organizations.

Excellence in Outstanding Teaching Award, American Society for Engineering Education Midwest Section.

Best Overall Zone Paper Award, American Society for Engineering Education.

Nadine Murphy Lambert Lifetime Achievement Award, Division of School Psychology, American Psychological Association.

2nd Place in the Nation in Speech, American Forensic Association's National Speech Tournament.

2nd Place in the National Lincoln Douglas Debate, National Forensic Association's National Debate Tournament.

Fellow, American Society of Civil Engineers.

Lynn Hollen Lees Book Prize, Urban History Association.

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

Photobook Research Fellowship, University of Colorado Boulder Libraries Rare and Distinctive Collections.

Best Presentation, PsychTERMS (Teaching to Enhance Research Methods and Statistics) Psychology Conference.

Honorary Professor, University of Jordan, Amman Jordan.

Paper of the Month Award, Parasitology, Cambridge University Press.

President elect, Nebraska English Language Arts Council, state affiliate of the Nebraska Council for Teachers of English.

Russell Edgerton Innovation Fellow, John N. Gardner Institute for Excellence in Higher Education.

Larry Tonniges Research Achievement Award, Nebraska Soybean Board.

International Agronomy Award, American Society of Agronomy.

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

Phase 2 prize ($250,000), shared with Janos Zempleni, Targeted Genome Editor Delivery (TARGETED) Challenge, National Institutes of Health

Fellow, Advertising Educational Foundation Visiting Professorship Program, Association of National Advertisers.

Distinguished Manuscript, American Association for Agricultural Education.

Outstanding Achievements Award in the Fields of Analytical Chemistry, Eastern Analytical Symposium.

Outstanding Reviewer Award, Academy of Management, Organizational Behavior Division.

Best Paper Award, Academy of Management, Organizational Behavior Division.

Applied Analytics & Data Infrastructure Catalyst Program Award, Nebraska Academy for Methodology, Analytics, and Psychometrics.

Outstanding Reviewer Award, Academy of Management, Managerial and Organizational Cognition Division.

Best New Dataset or DH Model, Digital Humanities Awards.

Presidential Citation, American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers.

2024 Sejong Books Selection (Cultural/General Category), Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Republic of Korea.

IDEA Award, American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers.

Fellow, American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.

Paul Drude Award, International Conference on Spectroscopic Ellipsometry.

Emerging Scholar Award, American Educational Research Association Division A.

Teaching Comparative and International Education Innovative Curriculum Development Award, Comparative and International Education Society.

Certificate of Appreciation, Serbian Weed Science Society.

Top Four Paper Award, Interpersonal Communication Division of the National Communication Association.

Top Panel Award, Central States Communication Association.

Philip H. Cole Industry Person of the Year Award, Nebraska State Dairy Association.

Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, shared with Ken Bloom and Daniel Claes, members of the Compact Muon Solenoid Collaboration.

Outstanding Reviewer, Journal of Marketing Research.

Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics, Mathematical Association of America.

Award for Impact on the Teaching and Learning of Mathematics, American Mathematical Society.

Fellow, American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers.

Lifetime Achievement Award, Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender.

Dennis L. Tewksbury Award, American Society of Civil Engineers.

Rising Star Award, International Society for the Study of Women’s Sexual Health.

Emerging Leader Award, Association of American Law Schools Externship Section.

Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, U.S. Government.

Senior Member, National Academy of Inventors.

Rising Star of Mechanical Engineering Award, American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

Distinguished Leadership and Service Award, Association of Leadership Educators.

Search for Excellence in Farm and Ranch Business Management Award, shared with Jay Parsons, Larry Van Tassell, and Shannon Sand, National Association of County Agricultural Agents.

Sukup Global Food Security Award, American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers.

Sigma Delta Chi Award for Distinguished Journalism, Small Market Documentary, Society of Professional Journalists.

Gold Medal, Best Documentary over 40 Minutes, International Motion Picture Academy, Ontario, Canada.

Regional Edward R. Murrow Award, Best Documentary, Radio, Television and Digital News Association.

Gold Award, Spotlight Documentary Awards.

Best Historical War Film, Festival Napoleon, Paris, France.

Eric Sevareid Award, Best Documentary, Midwest Broadcast Journalists Association.

Duty and Honor Award, Beaufort International Film Festival.

Valor Award, Veteran's Film Festival, Los Angeles.

Best Documentary, Indian Independent Film Festival, Kolkata, India.

Award of Excellence, Broadcast Education Association On-Location Faculty Competition.

Award of Excellence Special Mention, Accolade Global Film Competition.

Educator Award, North American Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture.

Outstanding Legal Educator Award, Nebraska State Bar Foundation.

Excellence in Reviewing Award, Human Resource Management Review.

Outstanding Reviewer Award, Human Resource Management Journal.

Service to the International Community Award, American College Personnel Association Commission for Global Dimensions of Student Development.

New Scholar Book Award, American Educational Research Association Division F (History and Historiography).

Campus Lab Champion of the Year, Science Interactive.

Top Business Professors, Poets&Quants.

EdMedia Outstanding Paper Award, Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education.

Notable Contributions to the Auditing Literature Award, shared with Marjorie Shelley, American Accounting Association Auditing Section.

Educator of the Year Award, American Society of Interior Designers.

Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Best Paper Award, American Society for Engineering Education New Engineering Educators Division.

Best PIC II Paper Award, American Society for Engineering Education Professional Interest Council II.

Best Presentation Award, Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers.

Rising Stars of Mechanical Engineering, American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

Continuing Service Award, Beef Improvement Federation.

Best Presentation Award, Association for Computing Machinery International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication.

Best Poster Presentation Award, Association for Computing Machinery International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication.

Research Methods Best Paper Prize, Strategic Management Society.

Strategy Process IG Leadership, Strategic Management Society.

Julian P. Boyd Award, Association for Documentary Editing.

Fellow, American Society of Agronomy.

Fellow, Crop Science Society of America.

Outstanding Paper Award 2025, International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering.

Editor’s Choice Recognition, Journal of Structural Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers.

NSF U.S.-Japan Research Collaboration Award, National Science Foundation/NHERI-NIED/E-Defense.

Israel Halperin Prize, Canadian Mathematical Society.

Barbara and Jaroslav Zemanek Prize in Functional Analysis, Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Science.

Nebraska Corn Checkoff Presidential Chair, Nebraska Corn Board and Nebraska Corn Growers Association.

Notable Contributions to the Auditing Literature Award, shared with Thomas Omer, American Accounting Association Auditing Section.

Eric Sevareid Award, Midwest Broadcast Journalists.

Bernard J. Brommel Award for Outstanding Scholarship or Distinguished Service in Family Communication, National Communication Association.

Pioneer Award, Beef Improvement Federation.

Heart of 4-H Award, Lancaster County 4-H.

W.J. Dixon Award for Excellence in Statistical Consulting, American Statistical Association.

President's Award, American Planning Association Nebraska Chapter.

Fellow, Nebraska State Bar Foundation.

Academic Research Fellow, Institute of Management Accountants.

Outstanding Paper Award, Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education E-Learn Conference.

Editor’s Citation for Excellence, Journal of Plant Registrations.

Northeast NSF I-Corps Hub Regional Propelus Invitation, ZolX Inc.

Clean Tech R&D Voucher Award, New Jersey Commission on Science, Innovation and Technology.

Best Paper Award (2023-2025), Journal of Trust Research.

Pauline Yu Fellow in Comparative Literature, American Council of Learned Societies.

Bethwell A. Ogot Book Prize (2024), African Studies Association.

Silver Medalist (Composer and Original Score of “The Four Elements”), Global Music Awards.

Peyton Evans Artist Residency, The Studios of Key West.

Marie R. Pistilli Women in Electric Design Award, Design Automation Conference.

Hans Mueller Memorial Award, International Conference on Spectroscopic Ellipsometry.

Fellow, American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers.

Distinguished Fellow, American Society for Nutrition.

Phase 2 prize ($250,000), shared with Jintao Guo, Targeted Genome Editor Delivery (TARGETED) Challenge, National Institutes of Health