1. Distinguished Dissertation Award for 2006, Graduate College, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio. (Carries $500 Cash Award)

2. Dr. Sherwood and Elizabeth Berg Faculty Award, April 2006, South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota (For faculty who is in the first five years of their academic career, and who has “demonstrated commitment and encouraging potential to carry out the land grant philosophy of integrating teaching, research and outreach”) (carries $4000).

3. Travel Award, August 2006, NSF through Cornell University, $1250 award to travel to the Annual Institute of Mathematical Statistics Meeting in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

4. Laha Travel Award for 2006, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, $500 award to travel to the Annual Institute of Mathematical Statistics Meeting in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

5. Mathematics and Statistics Graduate Assistant Excellence in Teaching Award for 2003-2004, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH 43403.

6. Travel Award, August 2003, Department of Statistics, Corvallas, Oregon, $500 award to travel to the Justus F. Seely Memorial Conference on Linear Models, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon.

7. Eugene and Elizabeth Lukacs Memorial Scholarship, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, USA, May 2001.

8. DAAD In-country Scholarship, German Academic Exchange Service, Academic and Cultural Department of the German Embassy, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, September 1997- August 1999

9. Annual Best Students Award for 1990, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.