She is an award-winning educator, recognized as the 2005 Baltic University Program Educator of the Year. She was a Fulbright scholar at the University of Minnesota in 2000. She also has been the recipient of grants and awards fom several international organizations, including DAAD (Germany), ACCELS/ACTR, and TEMPUS. She has authored more than 75 articles published in nine countries. She is a native speaker of Russian, Belarusian and Romanian, and is fluent