| 2025 |
| Illinois Partnership for African Women’s Health Narratives, Funded by The Illinois Global Institute: $15,000 (Role: Co-PI) |
| 2024 |
| Investigating the Impact of Asymmetrical Access on Students’ Performance and Teachers’ Bias in Virtual Classrooms, Sloan Foundation and the Data Sciences Institute at the University of Toronto: $12,500 (Role: Co-PI) |
| 2023 |
| XR+AI for Empathy Training (XAI4ET), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign A competitive grant project funded by the Strategic Research Initiative: $75,000 (Role: Key Research Collaborator) |
| 2021 |
| Learning by Immersion: Creating Virtual Reality Labs for Electromagnetism Courses, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign A competitive grant project funded by the Strategic Instructional Innovations Program: $25,000 (Role: Co-PI) |
| 2019 |
| STEM DiVRsity Enhancement Project, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign A competitive grant project funded by VR@Illinois: $15,000 (Role: PI) Zoom Pilot, Funded by College Collaborative Technology Fund: $2,280 (Role: Co-PI) |
| 2018 |
| Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Michigan State University A competitive fellowship which is awarded to assist in the completion of a high-quality dissertation: $7,000 (Role: PI) |
| Summer Research Excellence Fellowship, Michigan State University A competitive fellowship which is awarded to a graduate student that has demonstrated potential for research/creative excellence in their academic field: $3,926 (Role: PI) |
| Thomas A. Muth, Sr. Endowment Fund, Michigan State University Awarded to a worthy and capable graduate student in the MI department |
| 2017 |
| Best Doctoral Collaborator Award, Michigan State University Awarded to a doctoral student that has proven to be an effective research collaborator. |
| 2016 |
| Summer Research Excellence Fellowship, Michigan State University A competitive fellowship which is awarded to a graduate student that has demonstrated potential for research/creative excellence in their academic field. (Role: PI) |
| Thomas A. Muth, Sr. Endowment Fund, Michigan State University Awarded to a worthy and capable graduate student in the MI department |
| 2015 |
| Academic Merit Award, Michigan State University Awarded to Ph.D. students with a cumulative GPA of 3.9 or higher. |
| 2014 |
| Rasmussen Memorial Scholarship, Michigan State University Awarded to 10 graduate students that the MSU graduate school believed would be pioneers and leaders in their fields. |
| 2008 |
| Outstanding Senior Award, Augusta State University Awarded to an exemplary student that receives both a faculty nomination as well as the majority of votes from departmental faculty. |
| 2007 |
| Robert Johnston Book Scholarship Award, Augusta State University Awarded to the student applicant with the highest GPA in the Sociology Department. |
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Christopher Ball, PhD 