Recent Awards 2020 - Martin & Ruth Massengale Lecturer, Crop Science Society of America Annual Meeting. 2019 - Elected Fellow of the American Associationfor the Advancement of Science 2017 - University Scholar (Office of the President, University of Illinois System) 2016 - Calvin-Benson Award (Outstanding early career research, International Soc of Photosynthesis Res) 2020, 2018, 2015, 2013, 2011, 2009, 2008, 2007 - List of Teachers Ranked Excellent by Students (UIUC) 2013 - Arnold O. Beckman Research Award (UIUC) 2013 - I.C. Gunsalus Fellow (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, UIUC) 2011 - Beckman Fellow (Center for Advanced Studies, UIUC) 2010 - Faculty Fellow (Environmental Change Institute, UIUC) 2008 - Dean's Teaching Fellow (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, UIUC) 2006 - College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences Team Award for Research Excellence (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) 2002 - Fulbright Scholar