Awards/Honors/Scholarships
2009: America's Who's Who. Marquis. New Providence, NJ
2008: Deans Nominee for Presidential Award for Excellence in Research and Scholarly activities, CAA. Texas State University , San Marcos , TX
2007: Deans Nominee for Presidential Award for Excellence in Research and Scholarly activities, CAA. Texas State University , San Marcos , TX
2006: Leading Scientist of the World "Phytochemicals and natural product research", Cambridge, UK.
2006: Presidential Award for Excellence in Research and Scholarly activities, CAA . Texas State University , San Marcos , TX
2005: Presidential Award for Excellence in Research and Scholarly activities, CAA. Texas State University , San Marcos , TX
2004: Appointed Affiliate Faculty. NASA Food Technology Commercial Space Center Iowa State University , Ames , Iowa (Center Defunct since 2005).
2004: Illini-Entrepreneurship Center Network Award, Funded by Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO).
2004: The Honor Society of Phi-Kappa-Phi recognition for excellence in graduate studies. (2004). The Honor Society of Phi-Kappa-Phi ( USA ).
2003: BioVision.Nxt Fellow. Selected as one of hundred brightest and most promising scientists in life sciences in the world. BioVision and American Association for the Advancement of Science, Lyon, (France).
2003: Best natural resources and environment (NRE) student poster. Academic Symposia, University of Massachusetts-Amherst.
2002: 2nd Place , Food Biotechnology-Poster. “Enrichment of the phenolic antioxidants in cranberry pomace by solid state fermentation using food grade fungus Rhizopus oligosporus” IFT Annual Meeting-Anaheim.
2001: Finalist Phi-Tau-Sigma, Graduate research paper competition. “Chelation and reduction of nonheme iron by sulfhydryl groups in chicken muscle protein digests” IFT Annual Meeting-New Orleans.