While working as a professor at Virginia Commonwealth University, I have received the following grants and awards:
Community Engagement Award for Teaching for the 2012 IYLEP Social Media Institute, Division of Community Engagement, Virginia Commonwealth University (2013)
Grant from the U.S. State Department and Meridian International Center to facilitate the Iraqi Young Leaders Exchange Program (IYLEP) at Virginia Commonwealth University (Co-Principal Investigator/Co-Academic Director 2013)
Quest Innovation Fund Grant from Virginia Commonwealth University (with Yan Jin, Scott Sherman and Ernest Martin) to create a Center for Media+Health at VCU (2013/1014)
Emerging Scholar Grant from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (with Marcia DiStaso) to carry out the research project “Turning to the Wiki-Doctor? A study of Wikipedia health information use and perceived credibility by
Internet users and doctors” (2013/2014)
Knight News Challenge Bridge Grant from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication and the Knight Foundation to implement the project “@iPadJournos: Preparing the next generation of Mobile Multimedia Reporters via Stroome” (2012/2013)
Grant from the U.S. State Department and FHI 360 to facilitate the Iraqi Young Leaders Exchange Program (IYLEP) at Virginia Commonwealth University (Co-Principal Investigator/Co-Academic Director 2012)
Mobile Learning Development Stipend from the Center for Teaching Excellence, Virginia Commonwealth University (2011/2012)
Promising Professor Award (third place) for outstanding teaching, Mass Communication & Society Division and Graduate Education Interest Group, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (2011)
Grant from the U.S. State Department and the Academy for Educational Development to facilitate the Iraqi Young Leaders Exchange Program (IYLEP) at Virginia Commonwealth University (Co-Principal Investigator/Co-Academic Director 2011)
Grant from the Arthur W. Page Center as a “Page Legacy Scholar” to analyze social media ethics at non-profit organizations (Principal Investigator, 2011/2012)
Grant from the U.S. State Department and the Academy for Educational Development to facilitate the Iraqi Young Leaders Exchange Program (IYLEP) at Virginia Commonwealth University (Co-Academic Director 2010)
Teaching and Learning with Technology Summer Institute Grant from the Center for Teaching Excellence, Virginia Commonwealth University (2010/2011)
Online Teaching Development Stipend from the Center for Teaching Excellence, Virginia Commonwealth University (2009/2010)
Small Grant from the Center for Teaching Excellence to implement multimedia reporting assignments, Virginia Commonwealth University (2007/2008)
