Awards:

• IMPACT Award, Research Corporation (2020) – Announced here, and in in the April 17, 2020 issue of Science
• Stanley C. Israel Regional Award for Advancing Diversity in the Chemical Sciences, SERMACS, American Chemical Society (2018)
• Herty Medal, Georgia Local Section, American Chemical Society (2017)
• Transformational Research and Excellence in Education (TREE) Award, Research Corporation (2016) — announced here
• Gompf Family Chair, Johns Hopkins (installation, 2016)
• Diversity Award, Council for Chemical Research (2015)
• ACS Award for Encouraging Disadvantaged Students into Careers in the Chemical Sciences (2014) – announced here
• Diversity Champion, Faculty Category (inaugural year), Georgia Tech (2013)
• Outstanding Service Award, Georgia Local Section, ACS (2012)
• Goizueta Foundation Junior Faculty Chair (GT, 2002-2007)
• BPP Freshman Partner Award (Georgia Tech, 2002)
• Sigma Xi Southeast Regional Young Investigator (2002)
• Sigma Xi Southeast Regional Young Investigator (2000)
• Sigma Xi Young Faculty Award (Georgia Tech Chapter, 1999)
• Blanchard Assistant Professor of Chemistry (GT, 1999-2001)
• NSF CAREER (1997-2001)
• Sigma Xi Research Society (1994)
• The American Institute of Chemists Student Award (1989)
• AT&T Scholarship Award in Engineering (1988)
• NSF Incentive for Excellence Scholarship Prize in Mathematics (1987)
• Mellon/Ford Minority Summer Research Fellowship in Chemistry (1987)

Fellowships:

• Humboldt Return Fellow, (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, 2022)
• Fellow, Royal Society of Chemistry (2020)
• Visiting Scholar, Phi Beta Kappa (2015-2016)
• Fellow, American Physical Society (APS, 2011)
• Vasser Wooley Faculty Fellow (GT, 2011-2013)
• Fellow, American Chemical Society (ACS, 2010)
• Humboldt Research Fellow, (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, 2006-2007)
• Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS, 2004)
• Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow (2000-2002)
• Cottrell Scholar Award (Research Corporation, 1999-2004)
• Feinberg Postdoctoral Fellowship (1994)
• NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (1989 – 1993)
• AT&T Cooperative Research Fellowship (1989 – 1993)

Plenary and Named Lectures:

• Helen Murray Free Endowed Lectures, The College of Wooster, Wooster, OH, February 22-23, 2023. (TBD)
• Student-Invited Seminar, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, January 28, 2022
• Signature Lecture, LSU College of Science Inclusive Excellence Series, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, November 9-10, 2021
• Keynote Lecture, SciaLog, RCSA, Virtual, October 7, 2021
• Telluride Town Talk Panel, Telluride, CO, June 22, 2021
• Emminent Scientist Lecture, Spring National Meeting, American Chemical Society, Philadelphia, PA, March 23, 2020 (Cancelled due to Covid-19)
• E. Davidson Lecture, University of North Texas, Denton, TX, March 5-6, 2020
• Leallyn Burr Clapp Lecture, Brown University, Providence, RI, November 7, 2019
• Keynote, Schaap Chemistry Symposium, Hope College, Holland, MI, July 11-12, 2019
• ADSE Diversity Lecture, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, May 2, 2019.
• Keynote Lecture, University of Texas at El Paso, TX, March 7, 2019
• Keynote Lecture, 9th Annual Spencer Symposium, Florida Southern College, Lakeland, FL, February 8, 2019
• Keynote Lecture, 5th Young Researchers Conference, College Park, MD, September 29, 2018
• Plenary Lecture, 12th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium in the Biological & Chemical Sciences, William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ, April 14, 2018
• Leo and June Davis Frontiers Lecture, University of Iowa, Aimes, Iowa City, March 29-30, 2018
• Distinguished Lecture, Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU) Murfreesboro, TN, March 1-2, 2018
• Distinguished Lecture, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, January 25-26, 2018
• Faces of Science Seminar, NU Building on Diversity (NU BonD), Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, September 27, 2017
• Diversity Lecture 4.0, University of Cincinnati, OH, September 22, 2017
• Chem Connect Lecture, Duke University, Durham, NC, September 20, 2017
• Herty Medal Award Lecture, Atlanta, GA, September 8, 2017
• Telluride Town Talk, Telluride, CO, June 27, 2017
• Castle Lecture, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, March 25, 2017
• NSF MPS/ODI Distinguished Lecture, National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA, April 25, 2016
• Phi Beta Kappa Lecture, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, March 24-25, 2016
• Phi Beta Kappa Lecture, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, March 21-22, 2016
• Phi Beta Kappa Lecture, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, March 3-4, 2016
• Phi Beta Kappa Lecture, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY, Feb. 25-26, 2016
• Phi Beta Kappa Lecture, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, Feb. 22-23, 2016
• Phi Beta Kappa Lecture, Willamette University, Portland, OR, Feb. 11-12, 2016
• Phi Beta Kappa Lecture, College of St. Benedict, Collegeville, MN, Feb. 8-9, 2016
• Phi Beta Kappa Lecture, University of The South, Sewanee, TN, Oct. 22-23, 2015.
• Phi Beta Kappa Lecture, College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio, Sept. 24-25, 2015.
• “Encouraging Disadvantaged Students into Careers in the Chemical Sciences: Symposium in Honor of Rigoberto Hernandez,” organized by Robert Lichter, Charles Liotta and Larry Dalton, 248th ACS Spring Meeting, San Francisco, CA, August 12, 2014.
• Andreoli-Woods Lecture, California State University, Los Angeles, CA, June 6, 2014.
• 5^th Annual Chevy Goldstein Distinguished Lecture, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA, May 4, 2012.
• Closs Lecture, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, October 18, 2011.
• Plenary Lecture, 29th Puerto Rico Interdisciplinary Scientific Meeting (PRISM 2009), Río Piedras, Puerto Rico, March 14, 2009.