Honors And Awards

l.Received Travel Award from the Biochemical Society of the Federation of the Society of Experimental Biologists to attend the 7th International Congress of Biochemistry in Tokyo, Japan, August 15-19, 1967.

2. Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, 1970.

3. Fulbright Scholar 1969-70.

4. Public Health Senior Postdoctoral Fellowship, January-March 1971.

5.Received Travel Award from the Biochemical Society of the Federation of the Society of Experimental Biologists to attend the International Congress of Biochemistry in Lucerne, Switzerland, September 3-9, 1970.

6.American Chemical Society, Charles Pfizer Award in Enzyme Chemistry, 1971.

7.Committee on Research (U.C.D.) Travel Award to Argentina, November 1971.

8.Travel Award from International Union of Biochemistry to attend Second PAAB Symposium Biochemistry for the Glycosidic Linkage, San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina, November 8-11, 1971.

9.Travel Award from the New York Academy of Sciences to attend the Conference on Storage Polyglucosides, New York, New York, May 25-26, 1972.

10.Travel Award from the Biochemical Society of the Federation of the Society of Experimental Biologists to attend the 9th International Congress of Biochemistry in Stockholm, Sweden, July l-8, 1973.

11.Committee on Research (U.C.D.) Travel Award to attend the American Association of Cereal Chemists 59th Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada, October 20-24, 1974.

12.Committee on Research (U.C.D.) Travel Award and Dimond Award from the Botanical Society of American to attend XII International Botanical Congress in Leningrad, Russia, July 2-11, 1975.

13.Committee on Research (U.C.D.) Travel Award to attend International Union of Biochemistry X International Congress of Biochemistry, Hamburg, Germany, July 25-31, 1976.

14.Committee on Research (U.C.D.) Travel Award to attend IV Photosynthetic Congress, Reading, England, September 4-9, 1977.

15.Committee on Research (U.C.D.) Travel Award to attend XI International Union of Biochemistry International Congress of Biochemistry, Toronto, Canada, July 8-13, 1979.

16.Research Travel Award from Botanical Society of America to attend XII International Botanical Congress in Sydney, Australia, August 21-28, 1981.

17.Committee on Research (U.C.D.) Travel Award to attend XIII International Botanical Congress in Sydney, Australia, August 21-28, 1981.

18.Travel Award from Carlsberg Research Laboratory to attend an EMBO Course on "Cloning of Plant Genes," October 5-18, 1981.

19.Committee in Research (U.C.D.) Travel Award to attend the International Workshop on "The Functional Properties of Cereal Carbohydrates" In University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada, August 15-17, 1982.

20.Committee on Research (U.C.D.) Travel Award to participate in the Biochemistry Delegation Tour of Biochemistry in the Peoples' Republic of China, September 5-26, 1983.

21.Camille and Henry Dreyfus Distinguished Scholar of California State University, Los Angeles, CA, October 10-14, 1983.

22. Travel Award to attend 4th PAABS Meeting in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

23. Alexander Von Humboldt-Stiftung Senior U.S. Scientist Award 1984.

24. Research grant Merit Award by the Public Health Service, 1986.

25.Republic of China (Taiwan) National Science Council Lectureship, September 19-25, 1988

26. Junta de Andalucia (Spain) Fellowship to visit, lecture and do research in the University of Seville. Feb. 1- March 5, 1990.

27. Recipient of the 1990 Alsberg-Schoch Memorial Lectureship Award of the American Association of Cereal Chemists.

28. American Society of Microbiology and Foundation for Microbiology Lecturer, 1991-93.

29. Japan Society For The Promotion Of Science Fellowship, April 1, 1992 to March 31, 1993.

30. 1992 Award of Merit of the Japanese Society of Starch Science.

31. 1993-94 Michigan State University recipient of the Distinguished Faculty Award.

32. 1996 College of Natural Science Alumni Association Distinguished Faculty Award.

33. 1997 Michigan Association of Governing Boards Distinguished Faculty Award.

34. 1997 Impression 5 Science Center Michigan Scientist of the Year Award.

35. 1998, Sixteenth Loomis Lecturer, Iowa State University, March 5, 1998.

36. 2000, PABMB Award Lecturer; Sept.13-16, Spanish Biochemical Society Meeting.

37. June, 2001 - present, MSU University Distinguished Professor

38. Acknowledged by Institute for Scientific Information as a Highly Cited Researcher January, 2004 in the Plant and Animal category.

39.12/22/04 A paper submitted to the Journal of Biological Chemistry is recommended for publication, and selected as the paper of the week in a forthcoming issue.


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