Teaching Excellence Award, Division of Science, awarded by College of Arts & Science, July 2009 Women of Distinction, Science, Technology & the Environment, awarded by YWCA, April 2002 USSU Teaching Excellence, awarded by USSU, July 2001

Determining the role of ribosomal proteins in ribosome function and heterogeneity, and how expression of ribosomal proteins is regulated and coordinated Identifying the developmental pathway of trichome development in Brassicas Plant development Molecular biology of the plan ribosome

plant ribosome, heat stress, trichomes, plant cell biology