News: Announcements

The Office of International Affairs is recruiting graduate student applicants to the U.S. Student Fulbright Program for the 2025-26 award year. The Fulbright U.S. Student Program provides an opportunity for students to obtain grants to conduct research, enroll in study, or teach English abroad in over 140 countries for up to one academic year. Interested students are encouraged to visit the Office of International Affairs website and contact Laura Pearce (pearce.58@osu.edu) to learn more about Fulbright and the support OIA provides graduate student applicants. Students who intend to apply for the 2025-26 award year must complete the interest registration form by May 31, 2024.

Spring 2024 graduates, we want to know about your experiences at Ohio State. Before you leave, please take the Ohio State Graduation Survey you received in your email. Your valuable feedback will help us enhance the student experience for future Buckeyes. Thank you and congratulations! For more information, please visit go.osu.edu/grad-survey. Please contact sl-surveys@osu.edu with any questions.

 The Graduation Survey will open on Monday April 15 for graduate and professional students (this is when you can start promoting) and close at the end of day on Monday May 6.

Ohio State is one of 10 universities selected to receive a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to advance systemic change in doctoral STEM education. With Sloan Foundation support, Ohio State will establish a Sloan Center for Systemic Change (SCSC). Building on the university’s long-term efforts and investments to diversify STEM education, Ohio State will seek to significantly enhance pipelines for underrepresented graduate students, with the aspiration to attract more students to STEM graduate programs while enhancing enrollment and graduation rates.

In addition to the grant award, Sloan is supporting each institution’s participation in the Equity in Graduate Education Consortium (EGE), a networked improvement community that equips participants with research, tools and change management strategies to achieve systemic change. The consortium is presenting an online workshop that will cover Fundamentals of Equity in Graduate Admissions. Grounded in compelling research, this workshop fosters insightful reflection, healthy dialogue and the development of concrete action steps to advance equity and inclusion within your programs.

This workshop is designed to be accessible and relevant to a broad audience across diverse academic disciplines. Whether you are an admissions officer, faculty member, or graduate student, this program offers valuable insights and actionable tools to contribute to a more equitable and inclusive graduate education experience.

Fundamentals of Equity in Graduate Admissions (2 hours)

Tuesday, April 30, 1-3 p.m. EDT 

Register here

If you have questions or concerns, please email Stephanie Santos (sxssch@rit.edu) or Yasmin Kadir (ykadir@usc.edu). 

Facilitator Bios

Dr. Linda DeAngelo is an Associate Professor of Higher Education, Center for Urban Education Faculty Fellow, and Affiliated Faculty in the Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Program at the University of Pittsburgh. Currently, DeAngelo’s scholarship focuses on retention, degree completion, access to and engagement in faculty mentorship, and access for students of color into graduate education. 

Dr. Casey W. Miller is Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Affairs in the College of Science at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He is an experimental physicist focusing on magnetism. He earned his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin in 2003, did his post-doctoral work at the University of California, San Diego, and is a recipient of the NSF-CAREER and AFOSR-Young Investigator Awards.

At Student Life Disability Services (SLDS), providing an accessible testing experience for students during Finals Week is an imperative goal and a true team effort. This semester, we are again inviting the campus community to join us in that effort!  

SLDS is seeking professional/graduate students and staff volunteers to assist with seating students, monitoring, and/or office administration duties from Wednesday, April 24, through Tuesday, April 30. Shifts are typically 1-2 hours; you can sign up for as many as you like.  

To volunteer, please select shifts by April 19, 2024, and include your name and dot number.  

Select shifts: SLDS SP24 Finals Volunteers  (live link)

Please direct questions about volunteering to Heidi Aune at aune.5@osu.edu or Madalyn Lyons at lyons.664@osu.edu. You are also welcome to call our office at 614-292-3307.  

 Thank you in advance for contributing your time to ensure that all students have an equitable testing experience.  

To graduate faculty members,

This message concerns an immediate need for Graduate Faculty Representatives (GFR) over the next ten days for PhD final exams.  There are 80 exams scheduled between now and the deadline of April 12 that do not yet have a GFR assigned. If you have a couple of hours this week and next week to spare, please consider serving in this role. As a reminder, the role of the GFR is to confirm the rigor and process of an oral exam.  It is not to evaluate the dissertation document itself, although a copy is provided for reference.

 I know this is a busy time of the semester for everyone, and time is at a premium, but anxious graduate students need our faculty colleagues to step up as a GFR to assure them they will receive a fair and equitable exam.  

 Please reach out to Sandy at gsgfr@osu.edu if you want to request an exam list be sent to you.  This will be most helpful, and I thank you for helping our students complete their exams in time for a Spring 2024 graduation.

 Best regards,

Mary Stromberger
Vice Provost and Dean for Graduate Education