Recognition
Grants, fellowships & awards
More than $150,000 in competitive funding, plus over a dozen scholarships and awards across three universities.
Grants & fellowships
$120,0002019–2021
USDA NIFA Pre-doctoral Fellowship
The Pennsylvania State University. Project: Tracing Astringency from Plant to Chocolate Using Human and Chemical Methods.
$25,0002015
Belgian American Educational Foundation Fellowship
Ghent University, Belgium.
€10,0002011–2013
European Masters in Food Studies Fellowship
Wageningen University, The Netherlands.
$2,5002018
College of Agricultural Sciences INTAD Competitive Grant
Penn State. Project: Does a national sensory panel improve food quality? An exploratory study with Honduran cocoa liquor.
Scholarships & awards
- 2019–2020
- John and Jane Ziegler Graduate Award in Sensory SciencePenn State
- 2019–2020
- Ira W. Minter Memorial AwardPenn State
- 2019
- IFT Dr. Richard L. Hall Scholarship in Flavor SciencePenn State
- 2019
- Best Cocoa Poster Award, First Place5th International Congress on Cocoa Coffee and Tea
- 2018
- Graduate Exhibition Poster Award, Social & Behavioral Science, First PlacePenn State
- 2017–2021
- Edith and William B. Rosskam, II Memorial Scholarship in Food SciencePenn State
- 2017–2018
- NY/NJ AACT Walter Hopkins Memorial ScholarshipPenn State
- 2017–2018
- Fred and Florence Jacobson Food Science Graduate ScholarshipPenn State
- 2017–2018
- IFT Sensory and Consumer Sciences Division PhD Degree ScholarshipPenn State
- 2008
- Research Chefs (RCA) Foundation ScholarshipThe Culinary Institute of America at Greystone
- 2006
- Kellogg’s Research, Quality and Technology ScholarshipUniversity of Illinois
- 2003–2007
- Jonathan Baldwin Turner ScholarshipUniversity of Illinois
- 2003
- Illinois General Assembly Legislative ScholarshipUniversity of Illinois