Hideka Kobayashi Honors and Awards:
Kentucky State University
2001- Hope E. Hopps Student Poster Award, Society for In Vitro Biology (SIVB) 1998- American Daylily Society Award 1998- Perennial Plant Association Grant 1996- Gamma Sigma Delta Honors and Awards (continued): 1995- Metropolitan Columbus Daylily Society Award 1995- Pi Alpha Xi 1995- Towers Honor Society 1994 and 1995- Skou Floriculture Scholarship 1994 and 1995- New York Florists' Award
Grants:
2013- Developing temperature tolerant Dendrobium orchid hybrids for limited resource Kentucky farmers (Evans-Allen Grant)
2011- Health benefits and chemopreventive properties of two native teas (1890 Capacity Building Grant), $299,993
2007- Anticancer and neuroprotective properties of pawpaw fruit extracts and acetogenins bioavailability (1890 Capacity Building Grant), $299,952
Certification:
Herbal Medicine: Safety and Efficacy Issues for Pharmacists, University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Pharmacy
Community Emergency Response Team Certification, Federal Emergency Management Agency
Professional/Student Groups:
Greater Cincinnati Orchid Society (2012-present)
American Society for Horticultural Science (2006-present)
Secretary for Herb, Spice and Medicinal Plant Working Group (2012-2015)
Secretary for Tropical Horticulture Working Group (2015-2016)
Chair for Herb, Spice and Medicinal Plant Working Group (2015-present)
Chair for Tropical Horticulture Working Group (2016-present)
Founding member of Orchid Working Group (2016-present)
Chair elect for Orchid Working Group (2017-present)
Founder and caretaker
Bluegrass Orchid Society (2010)
Kentucky Academy of Science (2005-present)
Secretary for Agricultural Science section (2012-present)
Illini Orchid Club (2002-2005)
Founder, President (2002- 2003) and grower (2002-2005)
International Society for Ethnopharmacology (2003-2004)
Hands-on Herb Society (2002)
Vice President
Champaign-Urbana Homeopathy Study Group (2002) Professional/Student Groups (continued):
Champaign-Urbana Homeopathy Study Group (2002) Professional/Student Groups (continued):
Society for In Vitro Biology (2001-2002, 2003)
Society for In Vitro Biology (2001-2002, 2003)
Japan House Urasenke Tea Study Group (1999-2003)
Central Illinois Orchid Society (1999- 2000)