| 2007 | Invited Participant, 54th Annual National Security Forum, 14-18 May. Air War College, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. |
| 2006 | 2006 Sabbatical, Spring Term January-May: To translate Henri de Lubac’s Medieval Exegesis from French and Latin (volume 3). |
| 2004 | Participant in a seminar, Teaching About Islam and Middle Eastern Culture, at the American Center of Oriental Research in Amman, Jordan, sponsored by the Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) and the Council of Overseas Research Centers, 4-24 January 2004. |
| 2003 | Listing in 57th edition of Marquis’s Who’s Who in America. |
| 2002-03 | 2002-03 Speaker, Kansas Humanities Council (August 2002-03): The Expansion of Islam (Johnson County Community College, 25 Feb 03) |
| 1997-98 | Speaker, Kansas Humanities Council (August 1997-1998): Great Meditations upon the Citizen and the City |
| 1996 | President, Kansas City Area Philosophical Society (March 1997-98) |
| 1995 | NEH Study Grant: The Divine Simplicity in the Metaphysical Doctrine of Aquinas, Maimonides, and Avicenna (FJ-22059-95) |
| 1994 | Second Summer Thomistic Institute (University of Notre Dame) |
| 1993 | Summer Seminar "Islam & the Scientific Tradition" (Columbia University) |
| 1987 | Guest Curator, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC |
| 1986-87 |
Scholar in Residence, The Catholic University of America |
| 1986-87 | NEH Translation Grant: Apollonius of Perga's De sectione rationis |
| 1982 | Constantin Foundation Grant |
| 1976-77 | Imperial Iranian Academy of Philosophy, Tehran |
| 1976 | NEH Seminar in Arabic Paleography (University of Pennsylvania) |
| 1975-76 | Canada Council Doctoral Fellowship |
| 1974 | Research Assistant: Professor M.E. Marmura, acknowledged in his 2005 translation of Avicenna’s Metaphysics |
| 1970-73 | Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies Fellowships |
| 1970-71 | Woodrow Wilson Fellowship |
