Cohort Sistas presented Dr. Raven Baxter with its Living Legacy Award and heard her keynote at the doctoral support network's fifth anniversary gala in Washington on March 7, 2026.
The Creative Collective NYC named Dr. Raven Baxter to its 2025 Creative Class, a list of 63 Black culture-shifters revealed by Essence on Feb. 3, 2025.
The Williamsville Education Foundation inducted Dr. Raven Baxter, a 2010 graduate of Williamsville North High School, into the Williamsville Wall of Fame on Nov. 8, 2024.
Stellar Dreams, the telescope program of Dr. Raven Baxter's nonprofit The Science Haven, won a Gold Award in the first Astronaut Rock Star Awards for National Astronaut Day 2024.
Graduate Women in Science named Dr. Raven Baxter an honorary member with its 2023 Science Communication Award, a category the society added after 2020.
The Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture released a career conversation with Dr. Raven Baxter, whose interviewer noted she is featured in the museum's new Afrofuturism exhibition.
Viruses, Vaccines, & COVID-19, an animated series Dr. Raven Baxter narrated for the American Museum of Natural History, has won a Bronze Anthem Award.
EBONY named Dr. Raven Baxter to its 2022 Power 100 as a STEM Trailblazer, citing her science-education rap videos and her web series The STEMbassy.
The American Association of University Women honored Dr. Raven Baxter as one of three 2022 Women of Distinction on May 26, 2022, citing her work bringing science into pop culture.
AFROTECH named Dr. Raven Baxter to the Masterminds section of its first Future 50 list, a Black History Month honor for 50 Black innovators in tech.
Reinvented Magazine named its 2021 print feature on Raven Baxter, about teaching science through song, its 2021 Interview of the Year.
Forbes named Raven Baxter, then a doctoral candidate at the University at Buffalo, to its 30 Under 30 Science list for 2022 on December 1, 2021.
Buffalo State College gave Raven Baxter, who earned her B.A. there in 2014 and her M.A. in 2017, its 2021 Young Alumnus Achievement Award.
The State University of New York gave Raven Baxter its Chancellor's Award for Student Excellence in 2021, naming her in a new Special Service category for COVID-19 education.
Raven Baxter won the Award for Diversity and Inclusion in Science Communication at The Outpost's first Asteroid Awards, held online on October 24, 2020.
Fortune named Raven Baxter, then 27, to its 2020 40 Under 40 in health, citing her rap video "Big Ole Geeks" and her COVID-19 song "Wipe It Down."
Raven Baxter began her Ph.D. in curriculum, instruction and the science of learning at the University at Buffalo in 2018 as one of 18 new Arthur A. Schomburg Fellows.
