HONORS & AWARDS

  • 2019                American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP) Travel Award

  • 2019                Career Development Leadership Award Program, Anxiety and Depression Association of America (ADAA)

  • 2019                Penn PROMOTES Research on Sex and Gender in Health Travel Award

  • 2018                National Network of Depression Centers (NNDC) Emerging Scholar Travel Award

  • 2018                Society of Biological Psychiatry Domestic Travel Fellowship Award

  • 2017                Perinatal Mental Health Society Travel Scholar Award

  • 2015                Society of Biological Psychiatry Annual Conference, Top Poster Award Finalist

  • 2012                American Academy of Sleep Medicine Young Investigator Award: Sleep Research Society Meritorious Abstract Award

  • 2011                American Psychological Association, Health Psychology (Division 38) Graduate Student Research Award

  • 2009               Excellence in Teaching Award, The Ohio State University Department of Psychology

  • 2009               The Ohio State University Department of Psychology Scholarship Award for Conference Presentation

  • 2007                University Fellowship, The Ohio State University

  • 2001                The Johns Hopkins University Honor Society for Biology

  • 2000- 2001    The Johns Hopkins University Honor Society for Neuroscience

  • 1999-2000     National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Experience for Undergraduates Fellowship

  • 1998                The Society for Neuroscience (SFN), Honorable Mention Poster Session Baltimore Chapter

  • 1997- 2001   John Howard Eager Scholar, The Johns Hopkins University

  • 1997- 2001    Maryland House of Delegates Scholarship

RESEARCH FUNDING

  • National Institutes of Mental Health (NIMH) Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant Award (R21MH125936): “Allopregnanolone and Gamma-Aminobutyric Acid Receptor (GABA-A-R) Plasticity in Women with Premenstrual Mood Symptoms” (2022)

  • Clue Biowink Research Innovation Program Grant: “Gut Feelings: Associations Among Cognitive-Affective Symptoms, The Menstrual Cycle, And Gut Function in Women Who Experience Premenstrual Syndrome” (2020)

  • National Institutes of Health (NIH) Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD), Small Research Grants (R03): “Early Life Stress Patterning of the Gut-Brain Axis: An Intergenerational Approach” (2020)

  • National Institutes of Health (NIH) Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award (NIMH K23MH107831): “Psychophysiology, Neurosteroids, and Stress in Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD)” (2016)

  • March of Dimes Prematurity Research Center Early Career Award  “Stress, Inflammation & The Microbiome: Risk for Preterm Birth” (2017)

  • NARSAD Young Investigator Grant  “Neurosteroids: A Potential Mechanism for SSRI Action in Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD)” (2015)

  • Critical Difference for Women Foundation Professional Development Research Grant  (Dissertation) (2011)

  • American Psychological Association (APA) Division 38 Graduate Student Research Grant (Dissertation) (2010)