Chair of Area 1J (Fluid Mechanics) Programming Committee for AIChE, 2012 – 2014. Awarded funding for “Control of Mixing Driven Coalescence of Sessile Drops” from the National Science Foundation for 8/2013 to 7/2016, with co-PI Steve Garoff (Physics). Technical Program Organizer, Society of Rheology Annual Meeting, Pasadena, CA, February 10 – 14, 2013. With Carlos Rinaldi. Awarded the Russell V. Trader Career Faculty Fellowship, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University 2011-2013 Awarded funding for "Characterization of Dispersant Adsorption Timescales Using a Microscale Tensiometer", as part of The Consortium for the Molecular Engineering of Dispersant Systems with Tulane University (V. John, PI), “The Science and Technology of Dispersants as Relevant to Deep-Sea Oil Releases,” Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative, CMU PI: Anna, CMU co-PI: Walker, October 2011 – September 2014 Filed patent application with S. Garoff, called “Apparatus and Process for Producing Patterned, Micron and Nanometer Size Reaction and Mixing Zones for Fluids Deposited on Smooth, Rough and Porous Surfaces and Applications of That Process,” Full Patent Application Filed February 15, 2011. Docket No. 279430.108_PCT. Co-Chair of the 2015 Gordon Research Conference on Physics & Chemistry of Microfluidics, with J. Posner (U. Washington).