Hooker earned the Battelle Entrepreneurial Award in 2001, and a Federal Laboratory Consortium Recognition Award in 1999, for his work on "Reactive Transport in 3-Dimensions." .
In 2014, Hooker had a paper titled "Measles-mumps-rubella vaccination timing and autism among young African American boys: a reanalysis of CDC data" retracted from the journal Translational Neurodegeneration.