 She has also been a vocal critic of the airport passenger screening procedures of the US Transportation Security Administration, which she characterizes as sexual assault.Gentry won the Henry L. Alder Award for Distinguished Teaching by a Beginning Faculty Member of the Mathematical Association of America in 2009.She won the Navy Meritorious Civilian Service Award in 2014, and in the same year was a finalist for the INFORMS Daniel H. Wagner Prize for Excellence in Operations Research Practice.