Recipient of: Board of Governors Faculty Award, President's Award for Excellence in Teaching. Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award, Board of Governors Lifetime Achievement Award and YMCA National Writer's Voice Writers Award for creative nonfiction. 2012 Murray E. Jackson Creative Scholar in the Arts.

Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing. Fulbright Scholar to the University of the West Indies.
Vice president of the Detroit Community Health Connection, which named a health center after her. Winner of the Pillar Award of Excellence for Addressing Health Disparities.

Recipient of: President's Award for Excellence in Teaching, Spirit of Detroit Award. Participated in more than 225 invited public lectures. Named Distinguished Professor of the Year by the Presidents Council, State Universities of Michigan.

Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians. Recipient of: WSU Board of Governors Faculty Recognition Award. Winner of the Frederick Jackson Turner Award, Julia Cherry Spruill Prize and the Lillian Smith Book Award for At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape and Resistance.

Recipient of: WSU President's Award for Excellence in Teaching, Academy of Marketing Science Outstanding Marketing Teacher Award and Board of Visitors Faculty Fellow Award for achievements in research. Previously a Past Executive Director, Academy of International Business. Has experience with teaching and research at universities in France, Finland, China, Germany, Spain, Turkey and the Philippines.

A Kresge Foundation 2011 Eminent Artist. Playwright with more than 100 productions worldwide. Winner of the Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award.

Fellow of the American Chemical Society. Researcher with more than $10 million career total in single-investigator grants. Graduated more than 40 doctoral students. Author of more than 125 peer-reviewed articles in his field.

More than $5 million in funding for alternative energy research and curriculum development. Leader of the WSU student EcoCAR team and the electric-drive vehicle engineering graduate program. Winner of four major awards for teaching and research.

Distinguished Graduate Faculty Award in Science.

Recipient of the Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award, Distinguished Faculty Fellowship. Fellow of the American Chemical Society, the Royal Society of Chemistry and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member, International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science.

Director of the Center for Advanced Obstetrical Care and Research in NIH's Perinatology Research Branch. Creator of one of the first clinics for women at high risk for preterm birth. Recipient of awards from national gynecological and obstetrical organizations. Lead author of a groundbreaking study of a new method for preventing premature birth in millions of women.

Featured on ESPN's popular Sport Science television series, investigating big-league sports myths and mysteries. Sport Science is nominated for two awards at the upcoming 32nd annual Sports Emmys. The show earned six Sports Emmy nominations and three wins in its first two seasons.