Selected for pilot Professional Learning Community. Topic is service learning. Otterbein College 2003.

Professional Learning Community mini-grant from Otterbein College Center for Teaching and Learning. Use for conference attendance. $150.

Faculty Development mini-grant from Otterbein College Center for Teaching and Learning for conference attendance. $200.

SMSU nominee, Ernest A. Lynton Award for Faculty Professional Service and Academic Outreach, October 2000.

One of 15 finalists for national Thomas Ehrlich Faculty Award for Service Learning, January 2000.

Profiled in Springfield! magazine article "99 Up-and Comers to Watch in '99." January 1999.

SMSU College of Natural and Applied Sciences 1998 College Teaching Award. $1,000.

"A world-wide-web-based intelligent tutoring system for learning object-oriented design," Southwest Missouri State University 1997 Summer Faculty Fellowship. $5,000.

"Borland Curriculum Grant : Borland C++," 1997. $2,600.

Profiled in International Who's Who of Professionals, 1997.

NASA/ASEE Summer Faculty Fellowship, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 1996. $10,000.

NASA/ASEE Summer Faculty Fellowship, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 1995. $10,000.

"Undergraduate telecommunications and operating systems laboratory," National Science Foundation, Instrumentation and Laboratory Improvement Grant, P. Sanderson (PI) and S. Ali, May 1995. $37,767.

"Microsoft Instructional Lab Grant: Visual C++," S. Ali (PI), P. Sanderson, and E. Shade, 1995. $9,555.

"Applying the N-CHIME software system to an intelligent tutoring role," Southwest Missouri State University 1994 Summer Faculty Fellowship. $4,000.

1994 NSF/MSU Workshop on Computer Networks for Undergraduate Teaching Faculty. National Science Foundation. Michigan State University, August 1-12, 1994. $1,000.