Honors and Recognitions

National Academy of Sciences

National Academy of Sciences

National Academy of Sciences

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

National Academy of Engineering

National Academy of Education

National Academy of Sciences

Charles E. Eldredge Prize in American Art (shortlisted), Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Research Fellowship, Yale Institute of Sacred Music.

DSN Distinguished Research Artifact Award Winner, IEEE/IFIP.

Teacher Hall of Fame Inductee, Steinway & Sons.

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

Davisson-Germer Prize, American Physical Society.

Fellow, American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.

Fellowship, Harvard University – Loeb Classical Library Foundation.

Doc Elliott Award, Nebraska Alumni Association.

Senior Member, National Academy of Inventors.

Teaching Excellence Award, Interior Design Educators Council.

Integrated Pest Management Team Award, Entomological Society of America.

Fellow, American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.

Mentoring Award, American Statistical Association.

Fellow, Nebraska Strategic Data Leadership Network.

Senior Member, National Academy of Inventors.

Associate Editor, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, American Society for Microbiology.

Meridian Award, Association for Women in Science.

Honor Award for Architectural Detail, Sylvan Lake House Windows, American Institute of Architects Nebraska.

Citation Award, Duplex+, Residential Design Architecture Awards.

Juror Citation Winner (with Davi De Lima Vaz Xavier), Ken Roberts Memorial Delineation Competition.

Making a Difference Award, Nebraska Investment Finance Authority.

Timothy L. Mounts Award, Edible Applications Technology Division of the American Oil Chemists’ Society.

R&D 100 Award, R&D World.

Fellow, American Ceramic Society.

Best Financial Education Paper Award (with Jamie Wagner), National Association of Economic Educators.

AZ Awards–Architecture: Adaptive Re-Use (The Art Chapel), AZURE Magazine.

National Design Awards–Merit Award (Sylvan Lake House), Society of American Registered Architects.

National Student Design Awards–Merit Award (Bemis LOW END), Society of American Registered Architects.

National Student Design Awards–Honor Award (The Art Chapel), Society of American Registered Architects.

Central States Region Merit Award, Omaha Mobile Stage, American Institute of Architects.

Nebraska Honor Award for Architectural Detail, Sylvan Lake House Windows, American Institute of Architects.

Fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

Outstanding Young Teacher Award, American Society of Animal Science Midwest Section.

NACTA Educator Award, North American Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture.

Teaching of Physiology Section‒Labfront Mid-Career Educator Award, American Physiological Society.

Bowden Non-Resident Fellow, Bech-Loughlin First Amendment Center at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law.

Award for Incorporation of Sustainability Into Chemical Education, American Chemical Society Committee on Environment and Sustainability.

Mid-Career Alumni Achievement Award, University of Missouri’s College of Education and Human Development.

Friend of Science Award, Nebraska Academy of Sciences.

Leadership Award, Association for the Study of Higher Education.

Program Support Award, International Association of Programs for Agricultural Leadership.

Fellow, American Society of Agronomy.

Fellow, Crop Science Society of America.

Bess Lomax Hawes Paper/Project Prize in Applied Ethnomusicology, Society for Ethnomusicology.

Leadership Fellow, Association of Research Libraries.

Design Education Award, American Institute of Architects Nebraska.

National Student Design Awards-Honor Award (The Art Chapel), Society of American Registered Architects.

Honor Award (The Art Chapel), American Institute of Architects Nebraska.

Central States Honor Award (The Art Chapel), American Institute of Architects.

Visiting Professor Program, Advertising Educational Foundation.

Abstract of Distinction, North Central Region of the American Association for Agricultural Education.

Outstanding Alumni, University of Wisconsin-Platteville.

Top 10 Poster, Southern Region of the American Association for Agricultural Education Conference.

Outstanding Post Secondary Program, National Association of Agricultural Educators.

K. Michele (Micki) Kacmar Volunteer of the Year Award, Southern Management Association.

Inspire Women’s Excellence in Education Award, Lincoln Journal Star.

Excellence in Education Award, Irrigation Association.

Fellow, American Concrete Institute.

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

Pioneer Award, Beef Improvement Federation.

Distinguished Service Award to the Certification Program, Entomological Society of America.

Guest Honorary Designer, AIPEX Awards.

Douglas E. Ehninger Distinguished Rhetorical Scholar Award, National Communication Association.

Senior Member, National Academy of Inventors.

Advanced Surface Engineering Division Young Investigator Award, American Vacuum Society.

Best Paper Award, Association for Computing Machinery.

Brain Products MoBI Award, Brain Products GmbH.

Most Promising New Textbook Award, Textbook and Academic Authors Association.

Outstanding Achievement Award, National FFA Alumni and Supporters.

Senior Member, National Academy of Inventors.

William Daughton World Headquarters Service Award, American Society for Engineering Management.

Good Design Award, American Awards Associate.

Award for Spatial Design, A' Design Award & Competition.

Platinum Award (The Church of Root), London Design Awards (International Awards Associate).

Gold Award (The Church of Root), Muse Design Awards (International Awards Associate).

Editor’s Choice Article, ASCE Journal of Management in Engineering.

CPS Medium Award, NSF.

G.B. Gunlogson Countryside Engineering Award, American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers.

Young Scientist, International Society of Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods.

Graduate of the Last Decade Award, St. Cloud State University.

Teaching Scholar Award, North American Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture.

Holly J. Falk-Krzesinski Service Award, National Organization of Research Development Professionals.

Fellow, National Organization of Research Development Professionals.

Student Design Award, Society of American Registered Architects.

Excellence in International Research Award, American College Personnel Association’s Commission for Global Dimensions of Student Development.

Great Plains Milestone Award, Nebraska State Education Association.

Emerging Leader Award, Association of American Law Schools Section on Pro Bono and Advancing Justice.

President Award, American Planning Association Nebraska Chapter.

Rising Star, Association for Psychological Science.

Fellow, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.

Best Survey Paper Award, IEEE Communications Society.

Outstanding Service Award, Survey Research Methods Section of the American Statistical Association.

NEXT Student Design Competition Awards, Steelcase Inc.

Election to National Board of Directors / President Elect 2026, International Design Continuing Education Council.

Early Career Research Award, Council for Exceptional Children's Division on Autism and Developmental Disabilities.

Meridian Award, Association for Women in Science.

Margaret Fuller Prize (with Lauren Millhorn, Antje Anderson, Stephanie P. Browner), New England Quarterly.

Fellow, National Science Foundation-funded Advancing Research Impact in Society Program.

Malathi Veeraraghavan Service Award, Optical Network Technical Committee of the IEEE Communications Society.

Best Paper Award, IEEE Silicon Valley Cybersecurity Conference.

Recognized for Leadership of the Engineering Research Council, American Society of Engineering Education.

Election to the Board of Trustees, American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers.

Alan Koenig Research Award, Getting in Touch with Literacy.

Israel Halperin Prize, Canadian Mathematical Society.

Barbara and Jaroslav Zemánek Prize, Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

Senior member, National Academy of Inventors.

Prize in Food and Agriculture Sciences, National Academy of Sciences.

Research Award, American Society for Mass Spectrometry.

Marion Jenkinson Service Award, American Ornithological Society.

Fellow, Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute.

Fulbright Specialist Program Award to Brazil, Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board and U.S. State Department.

Dawn O. Braithwaite Distinguished Book Award (with Colleen Warner), National Communication Association’s Family Communication Division.

Fellow, American Ornithological Society.

J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Senior Scholar-in-Residence, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Scholar Award, U.S. Fulbright Program.

Shortlisted, for translation of The Witch by Marie NDiaye, International Booker Prize.

Rising Star Award, National Organization of Research Development Professionals.

Professional Officials Award, Nebraska Planning and Zoning Association.

Life Membership, Allergen Bureau of Australia and New Zealand.

Commissioner, Lincoln Historic Preservation Commission.

2026 Cohort Member (with Hooman Parhizkar), ZolX INC, Northeast NSF I-Corps Hub Regional Propelus.

Clean Tech R&D Voucher Award (with Hooman Parhizkar), ZolX INC Development, New Jersey Commission on Science, Innovation and Technology.

President's Award, American Planning Association Nebraska Chapter.

Search for Excellence in 4-H and Youth Programming award, National Association of County Agricultural Agents.

Docent, University of Turku in Finland.

Best Paper Award (with Lisa PytlikZillig, Abigail Herzfeld), Journal of Trust Research.

Walstad-Watts Award in Economic Education Research, National Association of Economic Educators.

Senior member, Optica (formerly the Optical Society of America).

President’s Award, North American Victorian Studies Association.

Technical Achievement Award, IEEE Technical Committee on Cyber-Physical Systems.

Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems.

Honor for Meritorious Contribution, National Association on Higher Education and Disability.

Editor’s Citation of Excellence Award, Agronomy Journal.

Biennial Award, Instituto de Arquitetos do Brasil – Departamento da Paraiba.

Fellow, National Council on Family Relations.

Rudolph Hering Medal, American Society of Civil Engineers.

Ralph Fuhrman Medal for Outstanding Water Quality Academic-Practice Collaboration, Water Environment Federation.