Honors & Awards
Graduate Research Fellowship
National Science Foundation // May 2021
An $138,000 grant "recogniz[ing] and support[ing] outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported STEM disciplines" that supported my time as a Biostatistics student at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
John M. Chambers Statistical Software Award
American Statistical Association // January 2021
My R package {stacks} won this prize awarded for the "development and implementation of computational tools for the statistical profession by a graduate or undergraduate student."
Goldwater Scholar
Barry Goldwater Scholarship & Excellence in Education Foundation // April 2020
"[O]ne of the oldest and most prestigious national scholarships in the natural sciences, engineering and mathematics in the United States... [awarded to students] who show exceptional promise of becoming this Nation’s next generation of research leaders."
2nd Place (tied)—Undergraduate Statistics Research Project Competition
American Statistical Association // September 2019
A competition aiming to recognize research completed by undergraduates with exceptional significance, originality, and clarity of presentation, the first prize for which was awarded to “Encouraging Equitable Bikeshare: Implications of Docked and Dockless Models for Spatial Equity.”
Commendation for Excellence
Reed College President’s Office // June 2018, 2019
Awarded to the top 5 percent of each class, based on school year GPA, annually.
1st Place (tied)—Undergraduate Statistics Research Project Competition
American Statistical Association // October 2018
A competition aiming to recognize research completed by undergraduates with exceptional significance, originality, and clarity of presentation, the first prize for which was awarded to “A Differentially Private Wilcoxon Signed-Rank Test.”
All-State Academic Scholar
Lawrence Journal-World // June 2017
An honor “meant to recognize the most promising high school senior [in Kansas]… based on their strong academics, extracurricular involvement, and essays.”