Arnold
Arboretum, Harvard University, U.S.A.Grants & Awards
Grants
2008
NSF OIA Major Research Instrumentation - MRI: Development of Multiuse Electron Microscopy Facility at East Tennessee State University: Scanning Electron Microscopy. (Co-PI. $360,478.00. Submitted 1/23/2008. Pending
Research Development Committee Major Research Grants, Office of Research and Sponsor Program, East Tennessee State University - Chemical Studies of Biomarkers in the Fossil Plants from the Gray Fossil Site, Tennessee. (Co-PI. $9,000.00. Submitted 2/1/2008. Pending)
2007
NSF CAREER Program - CAREER: Exploring the Neogene Plant Record of Global Vegetational and Climatic Changes in eastern North America – Research and Education Program ($421,657.00. Funded from June 2008 to May 2013)
National Geographical Society, Washington D.C. - Palecoecology of the Late Miocene-Early Pliocene Flora from Gray, Tennessee, southeastern North America ($15,000.00. Awarded. 6/5/2007)
Research Development Committee Major Research Grants, Office of Research and Sponsor Program, East Tennessee State University - Systematics of fossil seed plants from a unique late Tertiary flora in northeast Tennessee and its biogeographic significance ($9,000.00. Awarded. 8/13/2007)
Network Research Grants, Appalachian Highlands Science Learning Center, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior - Genetic and morphological diversity in Carolina hemlock populations (Co-PI. $2,000.00. Awarded 3/16/2007)
Research Development Committee Small Grants, Office of Research and Sponsor Program, East Tennessee State University - Comparisons of the 7-4.5 million years old fossil fruits/seeds from the Gray Fossil Site, northeast Tennessee with the modern fruits/seeds housed at Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum ($1,200.00. Awarded 3/22/2007)
2005
University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Personnel Development Committee Grants - Palynological investigation of the Late Miocene flora from Gray, Tennessee. ($3,000.00. Awarded 10/26/2005).
2004
NSF DUE CCLI-Adaptation and Implementation - SEM in the Classroom: Creating a Student-Centered SEM Stereo Biological Imaging Resource (SSBIR) for Teaching and Research. (Co-PI. $74,300.00. Submitted 11/29/2004. Awarded 8/30/2005.)
University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Personnel Development Committee Grants - Arctic Plant Fossils and their Paleoclimatic and Paleobio-geographic Significances. ($3,620.00. Awarded 10/1/2004).
2003
University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point IT minigrants - Database Management on Fossil Plant Collection. ($477.00. Awarded. FileMaker Pro. 6.0 program purchased and installed. Collections Database structure design done
University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Personnel Development Committee Grants - Systematic anatomy of Cycas leaves. ($1,700.00. Awarded 10/10/2003).
Undergraduate Education Initiative Grants, College of Letters and Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point - Request of plant fossil collection tools and lab chemicals. ($1,500.00. Awarded 10/1/2003).
Awards
June - August 2007:
Mercer
Research Fellowship,
Arnold
Arboretum, Harvard University, U.S.A.
June - August 2005: 
Alexander
von Humboldt Research Fellowship, Germany
1998 -2001: 
Postdoc
Research Fellowship, University of Saskatchewan,
Canada.
1997 - 1998: Alexander
von Humboldt Research Fellowship, Germany
1995 - 1996: 
JSPS
(Japan Society for Promotion of Sciences) Postdoctoral Fellowship, Japan
1994 - 1995: 
ÖAD
(Austrian Foreign Exchange Service) Research Fellowship, Austria
10/1989: 
President Prize
of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
