2018: Winner of the AAS/SPDKaren Harvey Prize for significant contributions to the field of solar physics early in a person's professional career, "for her fundamental contributions to understanding coronal heating and the slow solar wind, and for her valuable service to the science community and the general public".[8]
2018: Awarded the NASA Early Career Achievement Medal for "fundamental contributions to understanding coronal heating and the slow solar wind and for valuable service to NASA, the science community, and the public".[9]
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