Institute for Ethics in Leadership Research Fellow—2015-2016

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Fellow—2014-2015

Teacher of the Year - May 2014

Faculty Development Grant for MTNA--Music Teachers National Association conference in Chicago, Ill—March, 2014

Faculty Development Grant for Center for Scholastic Inquiry conference in San Francisco, CA—April, 2014

Alec Chui Memorial Award, Viterbo University; for encouraging and developing scholarship in students—Spring 2012

Trustees Annual Opportunity Fund Grant for CD recording project ($5,000)—CENTAUR LABEL/Chamber Music of Louise Farrenc--2012

Viterbo University Faculty Development Grant: for international travel, 2011

Viterbo University Faculty Development Grant: Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies - Barcelona, Spain, 2010

Recognized for “outstanding contribution to Viterbo University” at the YWCA Tribute to Outstanding Women event, Fall 2009

Viterbo University Faculty Development Grant: College Music Society 52nd Annual Conference presentation/performance, Portland, OR

Viterbo University TRUSTEES ANNUAL OPPORTUNITY FUND award:  One-of-a-Kind Chamber Music Series  2009-2010 

Viterbo University Faculty Development Grant; Tour to Edinburgh, Scotland with colleague, Timothy Schorr, fall 2007

Viterbo University Faculty Development Grant; Balanced Pianist—Colorado Workshop, 2006

Viterbo University Faculty Development Grant; Jeanne Cotter Writer’s Path Workshop for  Composers and Arrangers, 2005