In 2000 she was awarded an Artists Project grant from the Ohio Arts Council.
Palay has been a resident artist at the Contemporary Artist's Center in Massachusetts (‘94), at the Yaddo colony in New York City (holding the Louise Bourgeois Endowed Residency (‘96), and at the Kohler Arts/Industry program in Wisconsin (‘00).
She has been a visiting artist at The Ohio State University (Columbus, Ohio), Hastings College (Hastings, Nebraska), Aichi University of Education (Aichi, Japan), Tokyo Glass Art Institute (Tokyo, Japan) and at the Forest of Creation (Kanazu, Japan).
In 2000 she installed a permanent public sculpture of the rooftop of the SPACES gallery in Cleveland, Ohio.
In June 2006 a sound recording of Palay's was featured on NPR's All Things Considered.