* 2000 Outstanding Graduate Research Award from the Wirt and Mary Cornell Prize
* 2003 American Chemical Society (PMSE Division), Arthur K. Doolittle Award
* 2007 YWCA Rising Star
* 2007 OH Bioscience Thirty in Their 30s Award
* 2012 American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy Outstanding New Investigator Award
* 2012 American Chemical Society, Polymer Materials: Science and Engineering Division Macro 2012 Lecture Award
* 2016 American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering Fellow
* 2016 University of Minnesota Sara Evans Faculty Woman Scholar/Leader Award
* 2016 University of Minnesota George W. Taylor Award for Distinguished Research
* 2017 American Chemical Society Polymer Chemistry Division Carl S. Marvel Creative Polymer Chemistry Award 
* 2018 Danisco Foundation DuPont Nutrition and Health Science Excellence Medal
* 2018 American Chemical Society POLY Fellow Award
* 2018 Big 10 Alliance Academic Leadership Program Fellow