HONORS:

• Recipient of 2006 Choice Magazine's Outstanding Academic Titles award for Tobin, K., Elmesky, R., & Seiler, G. (Eds.), (2005). Improving urban science education: New roles for teachers, students and researchers. NY: Rowman and Littlefield. Choice Book Review and Publisher's Letter to the Editors.
  
  
• Finalist for 2005 National Association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST) Outstanding Conference Paper Award.  There no stoppin us now:" Student Researchers, sociocultural theory, and building understandings of structure and agency in urban science classrooms.

• Finalist for2005 Conference Paper Award V: Implications of Research for Educational Practice from the Association for the Education of Teachers in Science (AETS).  Rap as a pathway to science learning: Commensurate rather than colliding worlds

• Recipient of 2004 Conference Paper Award V: Implications of Research for Educational Practice from the Association for the Education of Teachers in Science (AETS). Crossfire on the streets and into the classroom: Meso|micro understandings of weak cultural boundaries, strategies of action and a sense of the game in an inner-city chemistry classroom.

• Recipient of 2003 American Educational Research Association (AERA) Division G Outstanding Dissertation Award. Struggles of agency and structure as cultural worlds collide as urban African-American youth learn physics.

• Finalist for 2003 National Association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST) Outstanding Dissertation Award. Struggles of agency and structure as cultural worlds collide as urban African-American youth learn physics.

• Invitation to apply for the 2003 Queen's National Scholars (QNS) program, Queen’s University, Canada.  (The program was founded in 1983 to attract exceptional young researchers.)