Thomson Reuters Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Scholarship, 2010

Best poster award, "Applying multimodal discourse analysis to study image-enabled communication," iConference, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2010

Outstanding TA Award, The Graduate School, Syracuse University, 2009

Nominated for Student Employee of the Year, Syracuse University, 2009

Dissertation Research Grant from The Study Response Project, 2008

Nominated for IBM PhD Fellowship by iSchool Doctoral Program Directors, October 2008

Student Travel Scholarship from the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) to attend the Fall Symposium on Multimedia Information Extraction, November 2008

Student Travel Award for Best Student Paper in Information Science from the American Society for Information Science & Technology, New England Chapter (NEASIST), to attend ASIST Annual Meeting, October 2008