Awards and Grants
USDA NEXTGEN Award
Fall- Spring 2023-2028
Awarded $9.5 million
Project Title: Building a Boulevard for Career Success in Agriculture and Natural Resources for Underrepresented Students.
Role: Co-Principal Investigator
ARI Seed Grant, CPP
2023 - 2024
Awarded $10000
Project Title: Community Based Nutrition Intervention to Improve Diet Quality and Diabetes Management in Ethnic Minorities in Pomona.
Role: Principal Investigator
Project Hatchery, CPP
2023-2024
Awarded $8000.
Project Title: Qualitative Study to examine lived experience, challenges, and facilitators of following a Ketogenic Diet among College Students
Role: Project Advisor and Mentor
Senior Project for I-Corps mini grant
2022 - 2023
Funding Amount: I nominated 2 students working on the Project hatchery for this award and each student received $1000 stipend
Role: Project Mentor
CPP and Vistendo Collaboration
Spring 2023
Awarded $5000 (faculty and student stipend + cost of materials)
Project Title: Designing a Meal Plan to Optimize Dietary Intake among Military Personnel
Role: Co-Principal Investigator
Impact Grant, Centre for Community Engagement, CPP
Spring 2023
Awarded $1000
Role: Principal-Investigator
The STARS Summer Undergraduate Research Program
Fall- Spring 2022-2023
Project Title: Implementation and Evaluation of a Nutrition Education Program in a Middle School
Role: Principal Investigator
Service Learning/Community Engaged Learning Faculty Fellows Program
2022 - 2023
Awarded $1500
Role: Principal Investigator
The STARS Summer Undergraduate Research Program
Summer 2022
Funding Amount: $4000
Project Title: Development of a Middle School Food and Nutrition Curriculum
Role: Principal Investigator
Learn Through Discovery, a Signature Polytechnic Experience PolyX Inventory
https://www.cpp.edu/polyx/inventory/index.shtml
Role: Course Instructor/ Principal Investigator
The Alberta Diabetes Institute Translational Grant
Dec 2018 - Nov 2019
Project Title: Pure Prairie Living Program: Adaption for and evaluation in a First Nations cohort with type 2 diabetes
Role: Co-Investigator
The Canadian Health Research Institute Health Impact Fellow
Sep 2017–Aug 2018
Project Title: Health Initiatives for Indigenous Communities of Alberta (HIICA) Shared Decision Making Strategies and Community Engagement Approaches for Prevention, Management of Diabetes and Health Promotion
The Canadian Federation for Dietetic Research - Knowledge Translation Grant Accelerator Award
Nov 2017
Project Title: A Randomized Controlled Trial to evaluate the effectiveness of the Pure Prairie Living Program (PPLP) in a Community Setting
Role: Co-investigator
June 2017-May 2019
Project Title: A Randomized Controlled Trial to Evaluate the Pure Prairie Living Program in a Community Setting.
Role: Co-investigator
The 2016 WCHRI Innovation Grants Competition - Operating Grant
July 2016- June 2018
Project Title: Using Statistical Methods to Study the Relationships between Body Fat and Weight Changes during Pregnancy and Early Post-partum.
Role: Collaborator
Food and Health Innovation Initiative Operating Grant
April 2013 - March 2014
Project Title: Association between micronutrient intake and behavior development in Infants.
Role: Postdoctoral Fellow
Women and Children’s Research Institute (WCHRI) Travel Award
Winter 2013 awarded by WCHRI, University of Alberta to participate at the Experimental Biology Conference, Boston, USA.
Winter 2012 awarded by WCHRI, University of Alberta to participate at the Experimental Biology Conference, San Diego, USA.
Graduate Research Assistantship Fund
Winter 2009 awarded by Department of Agricultural Food and Nutritional Sciences, University of Alberta in recognition of academic and scholarly achievements.
Fall 2008 awarded by Department of Agricultural Food and Nutritional Sciences, University of Alberta in recognition of academic and scholarly achievements.