Honors & Awards

  • Salm-Bray Distinguished Chair in the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences (CALS) – 2022
  • WARF Innovation Award – 2015
  • Named Bascom Professor – 2012
  • Elected chair of Plant Molecular Biology Gordon Conference – 2012
  • Elected vice chair of Plant Molecular Biology Gordon Conference – 2010
  • Appointed to Wisconsin Biofuels Consortium by Governor Doyle – 2005-2007
  • Elected Fellow of the American Assoc. for the Advancement of Science – 2005
  • Vilas Associate Award, Biological Sciences Division, UW-Madison – 2004-2005
  • UW Graduate School Kellett Mid-Career Award – 1996
  • Fulbright Sabbatical Research Scholar Award, Belgium – 1990
  • McKnight Award for Research in Plant Biology – 1983-1986
  • Elizabeth Brown Postdoctoral Fellowship, Yale University – 1977
  • National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship 1972-1975
  • 1971-72 Woodrow Wilson Graduate Fellowship – 1971-1972