In 2011, Spyrou was awarded the Thomas H. Osgood Faculty Teaching Award from the department of Physics and Astronomy at
Michigan State University for her dedication to undergraduate education in the department. She was also featured on an episode of PBS Curious Crew. In 2021, she was named a
Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), after a nomination from the APS Division of Nuclear Physics, "for studies using total absorption spectroscopy and the beta-Oslo technique to determine neutron-capture rates for astrophysical modeling, and for dedication to communicating science to the general public". == Selected works ==