University of Illinois

Honor Awards

  • 2010 Teachers ranked as excellent by their students for fall, 2009
  • 2010 University of Illinois Mothers Association: Medallion of Honor Award
  • 2009 North American Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture Teacher Fellow award
  • 2008 Graduate student Naiman Khan receives the Nutrition Education Research Interest Section award for abstract from the American Society for Nutrition, Experimental Biology
  • 2008 Abbott Award for Women’s Health, American Dietetic Association Foundation
  • 2007-10 Appointment to the Academy of Teaching Excellence, College of ACES, UIUC
  • 2007 John Clyde and Henrietta Downey Spitler Teaching Award, College of ACES, UIUC
  • 2006 Global Scholar, College of Agriculture, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences (ACES), UIUC, Urbana, IL.
  • 2006 Outstanding Research Paper Award from the American Dietetic Association Diabetes Care and Education Practice Group
  • 2006 Distinguished Service Award from the American Dietetic Association Gerontological Nutritionist Practice Group
  • 2004 Mid-Career Award in Nutrition Education from the Society for Nutrition Education
  • 2004 Innovative or Outstanding Team Program: Dining with Diabetes, Illinois Extension
  • 2002 Appointed to the Panel of Distinguished Experts, Center for the Advancement of Health, Washington, DC
  • 2002 Selected for Experiment Station Committee on Organization and Policy (ESCOP) Academic Committee on Organization and Policy (ACOP) national leadership program
  • 2002 Selected as a Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) Academic Leadership fellow
  • 2002 Selected as one of a thirteen-member panel for Extension Service-USDA national impact indicators evaluation team
  • 2002 Award of Excellence, Nutrition Education for the Public, Division of the American Dietetic Association, for “Happy Bones” Osteoporosis Prevention Program
  • 2000 Leadership recognition, Society for Nutrition Education
  • 1998 Graduate student research paper competition, nominated one of top five. (Stacy Miller, MS student), American Dietetic Association
  • 1998 Leadership recognition, Society for Nutrition Education
  • 1996 Undergraduate Course Development Award, UIUC
  • 1995 Outstanding student research award (Joan Ham, doctoral student)
  • 1993 Innovative or Outstanding Team Program: Senior Series - Cooperative Extension Service, UIUC
  • 1991 Performance Award - VAMC, Danville, IL
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