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