HONORS AND AWARDS
*denotes past and present Gray Lab student award
2025: Beija Gore accepted in the Society for Freshwater Science Emerge Fellow Program *
2024: Dr. Austin Gray awarded a SETAC Presidential Citation
2024: Dr. Austin Gray awarded NSF CAREER Award
2024: Dr. Austin Gray accepted as a Virginia Tech Institute for Society, Culture, and Environment (ISCE) PREP Scholar
2024: Katie Mayer awarded Virginia Water Resources Research Center's (VWRRC) Student Competitive Grant*
2024: Beija Gore accepted in the Society for Freshwater Science Emerge Fellow Program *
2024: GCC Undergraduate Research Awards (Awarded to Kathryn Ouimet and Tessa Thibodeau *
2023: GCC Undergraduate Research Awards (Awarded to Allison Montgomery, Kathryn Ouimet, and Sam Purvis)*
2023: Megan Gaesser awarded CPRC Student Travel Grant*
2023: Best Poster Presentation in Applied Research at the 2023 Society for Freshwater Science Annual Meeting (Awarded to Tyler Allen)*
2023: Virginia Tech Cunningham Fellowship (Awarded to Megan Gaesser)*
2023: Virginia Tech Deans Excellence Award (Awarded to Beija Gore)*
2023: Virginia Tech Deans Diversity Fellowship (Awarded to Beija Gore)*
2023: Virginia Tech, Department of Biological Sciences, Outstanding Service Award
2023: Dennis Dean Undergraduate Conference, 2nd place for College of Natural Resources and Environment (Awarded to Nathan Ferguson)*
2023: Honorable Mention for the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program Award (Awarded to Katie Mayer)*
2023: Aquatic Biology Poster Presentation Award at 84th Annual ASB Meeting*
2023: Society for Freshwater Sciences Emerge Fellow (Awarded to Tyler Allen)*
2022: 3rd Place for Best Masters Student Poster Presentation at 43rd SETAC North America Meeting *
2022: GCC Undergraduate Research Award (Awarded to Nathan Ferguson)*
2022: William Walker Graduate Research Fellow Award (Awarded to Katie Mayer)*
2022: Mid-Atlantic PREP & IMSD Research Symposium (MAPRS)Distinguished PREP Alumni Awardee
2021: SETAC North America Eugene Kenaga Membership Award
2021: SETAC North America Recent Graduate Grant
2021: GCC Undergraduate Research Award (Awarded to UG Tyler Allen) *
2021: Virginia Tech Sendlebeck Fellow
2020: Virginia Tech Future Faculty for Diversity Program Scholar