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OUTREACH, AWARDS AND MEMBERSHIP

Outreach

  • UCR Institute for the Development of Educational Applications (IDEA) – Contributor and creator of “Champs, Chirps, and Twerps: What do we choose in mates?” and “Creepy, Crawly Crooners: Music for Mates”
     

  • Riverside Metropolitan Museum First Sundays Event – Teaching kids and the community about biology research at UC Riverside 
     

  • Engage, Enrich, Empower (E3): Bryant School of Arts and Innovation afterschool program for kids– Creator and teacher of “Explore the Outdoors!” course
     

  • Science fair judge and consultant to students at local K-12 schools

Awards

  • Animal Behavior Society Student Travel Grant – 2016
     

  • Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award – 2015
     

  • Dissertation Year Program Award – 2015
     

  • Newell Award – 2014
     

  • Honorable mention: Ford Fellowship – 2013

  • Orthopterists’ Society Grant – 2012
     

  • Chancellor’s Distinguished Scholarship, UC Riverside – 2011
     

  • Americorps Scholarship – 2007
     

  • Americorps Scholarship – 2005
     

  • Honors Scholarship, Pennsylvania State University – 2003

Membership

  • Scientifically Speaking: Networking Group for Young Scientists in Southern California –
    Co-Founder
    https://sites.google.com/site/socalscientificallyspeaking/
     

  • UC Riverside Biology Department Graduate Student Association â€“ 
    Biology Graduate Student Association Vice President 
     

  • UC Riverside Biology Department Graduate Student Association â€“ 
    Biology Graduate Student Association Representative 
     

  • Society for the Study of Evolution – Member
     

  • Animal Behavior Society â€“ Member

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