Grants, Teaching Experience, Awards, and Field Work

Grants
National Science Foundation DEB Grant (as Senior Personnel) – December 2014
Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Dawson Grant – November 2014
NSF DDIG – Spring 2013
  Project title: New Insights on the Evolution of Flight in Dinosaurs Using Novel CT and PET Scanning
Jurassic Foundation – Spring 2013
  Project title: Reconstructing Flight Behavior in Dinosaurs through CT and PET Scanning
ExxonMobil Geoscience Grant – Spring 2012
  Project title: Bird brained? Reconstructed brains reveal how dinosaurs took flight during the Mesozoic
Ford Fellowship Foundation; Honorable Mention – Spring 2012
Paleontological Society Student Research Grant – Spring 2012
  Project title: Bird brained? Reconstructed brains reveal how dinosaurs took flight during the Mesozoic

Teaching
Stony Brook University – Fall 2015-present
  Human Anatomy Laboratory Instructor
Mt. Sinai Medical School – Fall 2014
  Human Anatomy Laboratory Teaching Assistant: Structures course (Embryology, Histology, and Gross Human Anatomy)
American Museum of Natural History – Summer 2013
  Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU): Computed Tomography Scanning Course
University of Iowa – 2009-2011
  Age of Dinosaurs
  Natural Hazards
  Earth History and Resources
University of Maryland – 2006-2007
  College Park Scholars: Earth, Life, and Time

Awards
University of Iowa:
  Outstanding Masters Student – Spring 2011
University of Maryland:
  Gem, Mineral and Lapidary Society of Washington, D.C. Scholarship – Spring 2007
  Outstanding Senior Award – Spring 2007, 2008
  James A. Yorke Young Scientist Award – Spring 2005, 2006

Outreach and Other Work
Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Student and Postdoctoral Liaison Committee
  Member: 2006-2010
  Chair: 2010-2014
Invited Presentation: Network & Security Technologies, Company Retreat, October 2014
3rd Annual Northeast Regional Vertebrate Evolution Symposium: Co-organizer, March 2014
Invited Presentation: Skidmore College, Evolution of Flight Seminar, March 2014
Invited Presentation: University of Maryland, College Park Scholars, Science and Global Change Class, Recurring in February 2013-2015
Science and Nature Program’s 3rd and 4th Graders: American Museum of Natural History, Fall 2012
National Fossil Day: American Museum of Natural History, Fall 2011

Field Work
July – August 2012: Gobi Desert, Mongolia through the American Museum of Natural History
June – July 2007: Field Camp through the University of Miami, Ohio
June 2006: Chinle Formation, Arizona through the University of Texas at Austin