Made a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology in 2009 Elected as President for the American Society for Virology in 2007 Awarded the Distinguished Scientist Award from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2006 Awarded an American Society for Virology Lifetime Membership in 2001 Elected Chair for the Institute of Molecular Virology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 1997-2013 Awarded the WARF Faculty Mid-Career Award from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1997 Awarded the Vilas Associate Award from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1996 Awarded the H.I. Romnes Faculty Research Award from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1991 Awarded the Pound Research Award from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1990 Awarded the Distinguished Scientist Award from the Waksman Institute of Rutgers University in 1989 Commended by Pan American Foot-and-Mouth Disease Center for Work in the Control and Eradication Programs in South America in 1988[1]