Diana Northup's Honors

Waksman Foundation Microbiology Lecturer, American Society for Microbiology and the Waksman Foundation, 2003-2005.
Research featured on the NOVA program, "The Mysterious Life of Caves"; the BBC program, "The Secret Life of Caves"; CNN, the Discovery Channel program, "Seven Wonders of the West"; NHK (Japanese Broadcasting Company) programs; several newspaper and magazine articles from 1998--
Promoted to Full Professor, UNM General Library, 2003.
Best Mentor Award, 1999, ACE-PURSUE Joint Student Conference.
Barrier Breaker Award for removing one more obstacle from the N.P.S. path, May 11, 1996, El Malpais National Monument.
Accepted into the Microbial Diversity Course at Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory, Summer, 1993, with a $1000 scholarship.
The Charles A. and Anne Morrow Lindbergh Foundation awarded a grant to Diana in 1995 for Balancing Conservation of Unusual Cave Microbial Communities with Exploration and Research in Lechuguilla Cave, Carlsbad Caverns National Park, New Mexico.
In 1997 and 2002, Diana was on the Technical Review Panel for the Lindbergh Foundation.
Fellow of the National Speleological Society, 1992.
1990-1992 UNM Regents Lectureship.
1989 Best Research Paper on a Show Cave presented at the 1989 National Speleological Society Meeting.
1987 Ralph Stone Research Award from the National Speleological Society.
Graduate Fellowship, 1985-86, Department of Biology, UNM.
Designated a Fellow of the Cave Research Foundation, 1981.
Beta Phi Mu (Library Science Honorary).
List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students, Fall, 1976, University of Illinois-UC.
National Library of Medicine Fellowship to attend Biomedical Librarianship Program, Graduate School of Library Science, University of Illinois-UC.
Sophomore Women's Honorary, West Virginia University.