• Fulbright Scholar 2012. US Department of State. Project Title: Gunnar Erdtman’s Palynograms. Research at the Royal Museum of Natural History on pollen illustrations and laboratory notes of a Swedish pollen scientist. Stockholm, Sweden.
  • National Science Foundation 2008-2010.  Project Title:  RUI Collaborative Research: Genetic and cell behavioral characterization of nonrandom mating in Arabidopsis.
  • Supplement to RUI Undergraduate support and travel to international research conference in Brasilia, Brazil
  • National Science Foundation 2006-2008.  Project Title: RIG: Unique mechanisms of pollen tube germination in Arabidopsis thaliana.
  • National Science Foundation 2005-2009. Project Title:  Arabidopsis 2010: Functional Analysis of Pollen Exine Assembly
  • National Institutes of Health. 2005-2006.  Junior Faculty Development Grant, Center for Biomedical and Behavioral Research at Spelman College.  Project Title: The use of quantum dot permeants to characterize cell wall porosity in pollen grains and fungal spores.
Core Participant in two NSF-funded Research Coordination Networks (RCN) grants:
  • µMORPH: Microevolutionary Molecular and Organismic Research in Plant History
  • Collaborative Proposal: RCN on Integrative Pollen Biology