Honors and Grants:
Invited to present a talk Dreams and Nonlocal Consciousness at the 1998 annual meeting of the
Association for the Study of Dreams, Hawaii, June, 1998.Invited to present a talk on consciousness in sleep by the Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C., at a lecture series entitled The Brain and Consciousness: Frontier of the 21st Century, May 19, 1994.
Invited to present work on lucid dreaming at Mind & Life VI Conversations with the Dalai Lama, topic of meeting was Sleeping, Dreaming, and Dying, Dharamsala, India, Oct., 1992.
Keynote speaker, for the 6th annual YWCA Women's Escape Weekend, Jasper, Alberta, October 1992, Healing with Dreams.
Keynote speaker, for the 14th annual meeting of the American Association for the Study of Mental Imagery, Montreal, Quebec, May 1992, From Post Formal Operational to Post-representational Dreams: The Lucidity-witnessing Relationship.
Invited address for the Alberta Health Record Association Convention on Expand Your Horizons in Edmonton, Alberta, April 19, 1991 entitled Dream Analysis.
Invited paper for the the Association for the Study of Dreams journal, Dreaming, March 1991, "Frameworks for Understanding Lucid Dreaming: A Review".
Invited Address for the YWCA's Women in Management: Pursuing Excellence conference, Edmonton, Alberta, November, 1990, Unlock Your Inner Life Through Dreams.
Presidential address at the annual meeting of the Association for the Study of Dreams, London, England, July, 1989, From Sleep Consciousness to Pure Consciousness.
Invited address at the first meeting of the European Association for the Study of Dreams, Frankfurt, Germany, October, 1987, The Hstory and Politics of Dreaming in North America.
Professional Development Leave to write a book on lucid dreaming for the academic year 1987-88 from the University of Northern Iowa. Summer Fellowship entitled, A Return to Mentalistic Approaches in the Study of Dreams, funded by the Graduate College at the University of Northern Iowa for 1987.
Faculty Research Grant entitled, Manifest Content of Signal Verified Lucid Dreams, funded by the Graduate College at the University of Northern Iowa for the spring and summer of 1986.
Summer Fellowship entitled, Lucid Dreaming: New Research on Consciousness During Sleep, funded by the Graduate College at the University of Northern Iowa for 1984.
Faculty Research Grant entitled, Lucid Dreaming Mail Survey, funded by the Graduate College at University of Northern Iowa for the spring and summer of 1982.
Summer Fellowship, entitled, Vestibular Sensitivity and Dynamic and Static Motor Balance as a Function of Sex and Lucid Dreaming Frequency, funded by the Graduate College at the University of Northern Iowa for 1981.
Selected for participation in the NSF Chautauqua course entitled, Frontiers of Neuosciences at the University of Iowa, 1980-1981.
Dissertation research grant entitled, Personality Correlates of Lucid Dreaming, was funded by the Association of Research and Enlightenment, Virginia Beach, Virginia, November, 1977.
Awarded "Pass with Distinction" on major area (social/personality) of doctoral preliminary examinations, September, 1977.