Tan Chin Tuan Fellowship 2004,

Advance Fellow of Univ. of Washington 2004,

John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship 2003,

IBM Faculty Award 1998,

Outstanding Woman Scientist Award 1997,

Presidential Faculty Fellow   from the White House and National        Science Foundation 1993,  

Very Important Parent from Luther Lee Emerson School in Demarest, NJ 1992

DuPont Faculty Award 1991 & 1992,

Tau Beta Pi elected 1979; 

Sigma Xi  elected 1982;

Columbia Univ. SEAS Francis B.F. Rhodes Prize 1980.