Awards, Grants, and Fellowships



Creighton University Graduate Dean’s Scholarship

Awarded for academic performance, service, and commitment to Creighton’s Jesuit values of diversity and social justice, Fall 2015


Drexel University Honors Convocation

Graduated with a perfect 4.0 average, May 2011


University of North Dakota

Graduate Teaching Assistantship (Fine Arts 150), Full scholarship, and stipend, 2004-2006.


University of North Dakota

Teaching Internship, Keyboard Skills I and II Instructor, 2005-2006


North Dakota Council on the Arts

Arts Grant, $4000 in awarded and matched funds to supplement the required matched funds for the NEA grant for a statewide inter-university classical concert series conceived, planned, and organized by me, 2005


National Endowment for the Arts

America Fast Track Grant, $20,000 in awarded and matched funds to host a statewide, inter-university classical concert series conceived, planned and organized by me, 2005


National Endowment for the Arts

America Fast Track Grant, $20,000 in awarded and matched funds to host a statewide, inter-university classical concert series conceived, planned and organized by me, 2006


International Golden Key Honour Society

Inducted into The University of Akron Chapter, 1996


International Golden Key Honour Society

Inducted into The Drexel University Chapter, 2011