Member, NICHD Health, Behavior, and Context Study Section (CHHD), 10/17/2022 to 06/30/2026
Mentor, Towards 2044: Horowitz Early Career Scholar Program (encouraging and supporting scholars from under-represented ethnic/racial groups from North America in pursuing graduate work in developmental science) (2022-2023)
Co-guest Editor (with Dale Farran), Early Childhood Research Quality, Special Issue on “Measuring Quality in Early Care and Education: Past, Present, and Future” (2019-2022)
Member, Society for Research in Child Development Science and Social Policy Committee [previously: Committee on Policy & Communications] (2015-2021); Chair, Science Policy Subcommittee, 2018-2021
Co-chair (with Kathryn Paige Harden), 2020 Biennial Meeting Program of the Society for Research on Adolescence (President: Robert Crosnoe)
Invited Technical Working Group Member and Featured Presenter, Quality in Early Childhood Settings, Organizer: National Center for Education Research, Institute of Education Sciences (January, 2020)
Distinguished Researcher of the Year, Social Sciences (University of Illinois at Chicago, 2018)
Provost’s Faculty Administrator Leadership Program (University of Illinois at Chicago, 2018 Cohort; Project: Supporting Social Science Research)
Member of Technical Advisory Panel for the validation study of Illinois’ Quality Rating and Improvement System, Excelerate
Advisory Committee Member, "Five Essentials-Early Education”, a collaboration between the Ounce of Prevention and the Consortium on Chicago School Research which extended to early childhood CCSRs work on the Five Essentials of organizational context that support school success and student achievement (2015-2017)
Outstanding Reviewer Award for 2017, 2018, American Educational Research Journal
Frank R. Breul Memorial Prize for the best article published in Social Service Review in 2011
Teaching Recognition Program Award (University of Illinois at Chicago, 2003-2004 academic year)
Frontiers of Research on Children, Youth, and Families Young Scholar Award (Board on Children, Youth, and Families, National Research Council and the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences, spring, 1998)