First Place in the Oral Presentation in the Agriculture Section, Graduate School (Kansas State University), 2004
Recipient of the NSF-EPSCoR Graduate Student Travel Award, NSF-EPSCoR Kansas (Kansas State University), 2004
C. C. Burkhardt Graduate Student Award for the Best Paper., C. C. Burkhardt (75th Annual meeting of the Rocky Mountain Conference of Entomologists), 2004
Don C. Warren scholarship for Genetics (Genetics), Don C. Warren Family (Kansas State University), 2003-2004
R. C. Smith Award for Ph.D. (Entomology), Department of Entomology, Kansas State University, 2003-2003
Fred Clute Award for Research in Integrated Pest Management (Integrated Pest Management), Fred Clute Family (Kansas State University), 2003
Second Place for the Poster (Physiology, Toxicology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology), President's Prize of the Entomological society of America (Entomological Society of America National Meeting), 2003
R. S. Painter Award for Ph.D. (Entomology), Department of Entomology, Kansas State University, 2002-2002
Scholarship and Studentship for M. Phil. Degree (Forest Entomology), DFID (Department for International Development, UK) (University of Edinburgh, Uk), 1997-2000