Awarded the Philip F. Detweiler Prize for Excellence in Historical Writing for independent thesis, “Betty: A History Through Cookbooks”
Poynter Summer Fellowship (guest faculty), St. Petersburg, Florida, June 2007
Poynter Online Editors Conference, June 2005
Poynter Web+10 seminar (unofficial attendee), Jan-Feb 2005
Poynter News Reporting and Writing Fellowship for College Graduates, June & July 2004
National Writer’s Workshop, San Antonio, Texas, May 2004
2007 Association of Alternative Newsweeklies (AAN) Convention, Portland, Oregon, June 2007
2006 AAN Convention, San Diego, California, June 2006
2005 AAN Convention, Little Rock, Arkansas, June 2005
2007 South by Southwest Interactive, Austin, Texas, March 2007
Society of Professional Journalists Seminar on Cyberethics, Atlanta, Georgia, Nov 2005
Saxotech Users Conference, St. Petersburg, Florida, April 2005
J-Lab Conference on Interactive Journalism (SNPA.org), Tampa, Florida, Jan 2005
Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism, Boston, Massachusetts, Dec 2004
