Kevin has won many major awards for his work, including a 2010 Superior Technology Transfer Award from Agricultural Research Service (ARS)/USDA for helping to develop a new advanced biofuel, winter barley ethanol, which led to the construction of a 65 million gallon per year winter barley ethanol production facility in Hopewell, VA, and also a 2007 Fuel Ethanol Industrial Leadership Award from Bryan & Bryan Inc. Other awards include the Scientist of the Year for ARS North Atlantic Area (NAA) (2008), USDA Outstanding Technology Transfer Award (1999), Federal Laboratory Consortium Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer for Corn Fiber (Amazing) Oil Technology (1998), Certificate of Commendation from The Sugar Association, Inc. (1996), Horace S. Isbell Award in Carbohydrate Chemistry from the ACS (1989), and the Arthur S. Fleming Scientific Research Award (1985).