While working as a professor at Virginia Commonwealth University, I have received the following grants and awards:
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)










