Mike has received 2 awards from the North American Forensic Entomology Association. He received a research award for his work to complete an insect analysis on a portion of the over 40,000 arthropod fragments recovered from two graves in a crypt at Historic St. Mary’s City in Maryland. This project also has the support of the Historic St. Mary’s City research center, the Rutgers Department of Entomology, and the Arizona State University Forensic Sciences Laboratory. He also received the Expanding Horizons Award to present his master’s project at the 2022 International Congress of Dipterology.