Awards/Scholarship/Grants
AWARDS/SCHOLARSHIP (most recent at the top)
- Awarded Research Scholarship (Visiting Professor) from Dr. Bernhard Grimm’s Laboratory [Humboldt University (Berlin, Germany)] in summer from May till July, 2012.
- Awarded the American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) Women’s Young Investigator Travel Award to attend the national ASPB conference in 2012.This award is given to seven women Assistant Professors in their early career in USA. February, 24th, 2012. ($1000)
GRANTS(most recent at the top)
EXTERNAL:
- NSF-RUI-IOS preliminary proposal submitted on 11th January, 2012. Title of the proposal: Characterization of a heme deficient Chlamydomonas reinhardtii mutant that shows a light intensity dependent chlorophyll deficiency.
INTERNAL:
- Uwise Grant ($6700) for research supplies and mentoring research undergraduates, November 30th, 2012.
- Awarded COSM- Faculty Research Grant by the College of Science and Mathematics in April, 2012 ($1500)
- Uwise Grant ($600) for research supplies and mentoring research undergraduates, January 13th, 2012.
- COSM Research Incentive award by the College of Science and Mathematics at UWG, January, 2012-2013, one 3 credit hour course release.
- Student Research assistance grant awarded by Student Research Assistant program for the project “Functional genomics of eukaryotic oxygenic photosynthesis in the model unicellular green micro-alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii”; July 2011; $2000.
- Learning Resources Committee (LRC)-Faculty Resource Grant (FRG) for 2011-2012 for the project titled, “Employing functional genomics to study oxygenic photosynthesis in the unicellular eukaryotic model green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii”; $2000.
- COSM Research Incentive award by the College of Science and Mathematics at UWG, April 2011-2012, $3000.
- Summer Seed Grant for scholarship, research and creative activity award by the UWG Office of Academic Affairs, March, 2011 for the project titled, “Employing functional genomics to study oxygenic photosynthesis in the unicellular eukaryotic model green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii”; $10,778.
- Student Research assistance grant awarded by Student Research Assistant program for the project “The study of Irradiance based acclimation and photosynthesis in the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii using molecular biological tools”; June 2010; $2000.
- Research Grant awarded by the Sponsored Operations for Faculty research (SOFREA) program at University of West Georgia for the project titled “The study of Irradiance based acclimation and photosynthesis in the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii using molecular biological tools”; January 2010; $2,500.
- College of Arts and Science Faculty research grant awarded by the University of West Georgia ($500) for the project titled “The study of Irradiance based Acclimation and photosynthesis in the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii using molecular biological tools”; January 2010; $500.
