Professional Memberships
Membership on Editorial Boards
| 1986-90 | Teaching Fellowship, Yale University |
| 1987-90 | Research Assistantship, Yale University |
| 1992-95 | NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship |
Academic Honors/Awards/Recognition
| 1986 | Percy Lionel Davis Award (departmental prize), U.C. Berkeley |
| 1986 | Graduated with Highest Honors in Mathematics, U.C. Berkeley |
| 1986-89 | Annual Departmental Stipend Prize, Yale University |
| 1999-00 | Researcher of the Year, Department of Mathematics and
Statistics, Utah St. University |
| 2007 |
Creative Research Medal |
| 2008 | McCay Award (for distinguished
research, teaching and service), Department of Mathematics, University of Georgia |
Professional Activities
| 1991- | Refereeing duties for various journals |
| 1992-06 | Reviewer for Mathematical Reviews |
| 1997- | Reviewer for NSF grant proposals (includes service on panels) |
| 1996- | Reviewer for NSA grant proposals |
| 2000- | Reviewer for NSERC grant proposals |
Administrative Positions
| 2000-01 | Chair of the Colloquium/Visitor
Committee |
| 2000-01 | MSRI representative for Utah St.
University |
| 2000-01 | Chair of the Colloquium/Visitor
Committee |
| 2004 | Co-Director of the UGA VIGRE Program, Jan-April |
| 2005-07 | Chair of the VIGRE Grant Writing
Committee |
| 2008- | Director of the UGA VIGRE Program |
Service on Departmental Committees (Utah State)
| 1995-96 | Colloquium Committee, Search Committee |
| 1996-97 | Colloquium Committee, Search Committee, Graduate Committee |
| 1997-98 | Colloquium Committee, Graduate Committee |
| 1998-99 | Colloquium Committee, Graduate Committee |
| 1999-00 | Undergraduate Committee, Colloquium/Visitor Committee, Honors Committee |
| 2000-01 | Colloquium/Visitor Committee, Honors Committee |
Service on Departmental Committes (Georgia)
| 2002-03 | Facilities Committee |
| 2003-04 | Facilities Committee |
| 2004-06 | Executive Committee |
| 2006-07 | Personnel Committee |
| 2007-08 |
Graduate Committee |
Service as an Advisor
| 1991-93 | Joseph P. Gottman, Northwestern University, Secondary Ph.D Thesis Advisor |
| 1993-95 | Christopher P. Bendel, Northwestern University, Secondary Ph.D Thesis Advisor |
| 1995-96 | Amanda Brown, Utah St. University, Senior Honors Thesis
Advisor |
| 1999-00 | Kady Schneiter, Utah St. University, Masters Thesis Advisor |
| 2001-03 | David Hemmer, University of Georgia, Senior Sponsoring Scientist for the NSF Postdoctoral Fellow |
| 2004-07 | Jonathan Kujawa, University of Georgia, Senior
Sponsoring Scientist for the NSF Postdoctoral Fellow |
| 2004-06 | Su-ion Ih, University of Georgia, Postdoctoral Teaching
Mentor |
| 2004-08 | Bobbe Cooper, University of Georgia, Ph.D Thesis Advisor |
| 2005-08 | Caroline Wright, University of
Georgia, Ph.D Thesis Advisor |
| 2005-09 | Irfan Bagci, University of
Georgia, Ph.D Thesis Advisor |
| 2008- | Benjamin Jones, University of Georgia, Postdoctoral Research Advisor |
Service as an Conference Organizer
| 1994 | Organizer for the Special Session on Lie Theory at the 900th AMS Meeting in Chicago, IL |
| 1997 | Organizer for the Minisymposium on Lie Theory, Matrix Theory and Combinatorics at the MAA Meeting in Logan, UT |
| 1998 | Organizer for the Special Session on Representation Theory of Algebraic Groups, Quantum Groups, and Lie Algebras at the 932nd AMS Meeting in Manhattan, Kansas |
| 2001 | Organizer for the Special Session on Representation Theory of Finite and Algebraic Groups at the National AMS Meeting in New Orleans, LA |
| 2002 | Organizer for the Workshop on Modular Representation
Theory at the Korea Institute for Advanced Study |
| 2004 | Organizer for the AMS Summer Research Conference:
Representations of Algebraic Groups, Quantum Groups, and Lie Algebras, Snowbird, UT |
| 2005 | Organizer for the Special Session on Representation Theory of Lie Algebras at the National AMS meeting in Atlanta, GA |
| 2007 |
Organizer for the Special
Session on Cohomology and Representation Theory at the National AMS Meeting in New Orleans, LA |
| 2007 |
Organizer for the Special
Session on Lie and Representation Theory at the 1030th AMS Meeting in Murfreesboro, TN |
| 2008 |
Chair of the Organizing
Committee for a Workshop on Homological Methods in Representation Theory, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, CA |
| 2009 | Organizer for the Special
Session on Representation Theory of Lie Algebras and Algebraic Groups at the National AMS Meeting in Washington DC |