Honors and Grants

Mortar Board (President, Valparaiso University)

National Science Foundation, Research Funding, Summer 1969, 1978-79, 1993-94, 1995; Conference Funding, 1984, 1995, 2000; PI for PhDs (6)

Smithsonian Institution Pre-Doctoral Fellow, 1970-1971

Syracuse University Faculty Research Grant, 1976, 1982

American Philosophical Society Research Grant, 1977

American Antiquarian Society, Haven Research Fellow, October, 1982; Member, 1984

Woodrow Wilson Center Fellow, Fall, 1986

Smithsonian Institution Senior Fellow, Spring, 1987

History of Science Society Plenary Lecturer, 1988

University of Minnesota Faculty Research Grant, 1990, 1997-1998

UMN TEL Award: Outstanding Computer Aided Course Project, 1998

George Taylor Distinguished Service Award, 2000

Mullen/Spector/Truax Women's Leadership Award, University of Minnesota, 2002

President's Award for Outstanding University Service, 2004