PROFESSIONAL AWARDS AND SERVICE

 

AWARDS

- SSHRC Grant (Canada) – “Integrating different biological approaches: a philosophical contribution” (Collaborator/Core Team Member with Ingo Brigandt, University of Alberta), 2009-2011

- CLA Single Semester Leave, 2008-9

- UMN Faculty Summer Research Fellowship, 2007

- UMN McKnight Summer Fellowship for the Arts and Humanities, 2007

- National Science Foundation Travel Grant, 2006

- UCSC COR Faculty Research Grant, 2005-6

- Andrew Mellon Predoctoral Fellowship, 2004-2005

- George Hudock Fellowship, 2003 & 2004

- Harvey Fellowship from the Mustard Seed Foundation, 1999-2002

 

SERVICE

Journal Referee

- Biology and Philosophy (2007)

- The Quarterly Review of Biology (2007)

- International Studies in the Philosophy of Science (2007)

- Philosophy of Science (2007 - 2x)

- BioScience (2006)

- Heredity (2006)

- Journal of Experimental Zoology (Mol Dev Evol) (2006)

- Journal of the History of Biology (2005)

- Stanford Encylopedia of Philosophy (2005)

- Journal of Experimental Zoology (Mol Dev Evol) (2005 - 2x)

- Journal of Experimental Zoology (Mol Dev Evol) (2004)

 

Peer Review

- Oxford University Press (2008)

- Springer (2008)

- National Science Foundation (2006)

- MIT Press (2006)

 

University of Minnesota

Institutional

- CLA Freshmen Research Award Faculty Participant (2008-2009)

- CLA Undergraduate Scholarship Reviewer (Spring 2008)

- CLA ‘Sneak Preview’ for prospective students (2007)

 

Departmental

- Admission and Aid Committee (2008)

- Woodbridge Scholarship Award Committee (2007)

- Colloquium Committee (Fall 2007

 

Other

- Co-organizer of the History and Philosophy of Science and Mathematics Seminar Series (2005-6; sponsored by the Institute for Humanities Research, UCSC)

- Pitt/CMU Graduate Conference Referee: 1998, 2002

- Faculty of Arts and Sciences Graduate Student Representative for HPS Department, 1999-2001

- Graduate Student Representative for HPS departmental meetings, 1999-2002

- Instructor for Teaching Assistant Orientation and Training - Center for Instructional Development and Distance Education: (1) 2000: “Getting Started in the Classroom” & “Creating an Inclusive Classroom”; (2) 2001: “The 50-Minute Lecture”; (3) 2001: “Getting Started in the Classroom”