Hideka Kobayashi
Honors and Awards:
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)