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Are you a current Ohio State faculty member and an alum of the Big Ten Academic Alliance’s Summer Research Opportunities Program (SROP) (at any campus)? If so, the Graduate School is interested in connecting with you and inviting you to take part in SROP’s 40^th anniversary celebrations. 

The Ohio State Mentoring Initiative invites department and programs to request Better Research Through Better Mentoring workshops for the summer and/or upcoming academic year. 

Better Research Through Better Mentoring workshops are designed to support faculty in their endeavors to learn tangible skills and techniques to help them take their mentoring skills to the next level. 

Are you a faculty member leading a summer research experience for undergraduates? If so, please consider joining the Consortium of Undergraduate Research Experiences that is now housed in the Graduate School.

The Graduate School is planning to conduct a short survey of graduate students that specifically focuses on programmatic learning objectives for professional and career goal support. This survey will run from March 24 to April 28. This survey will help the graduate school gain insight on how to support all of you with assessment initiatives. Below is a copy of the email that is sent to graduate students complete the survey. 

The Dennis Learning Center (DLC) is offering a free Productivity Program for graduate students. The DLC Productivity Program will help you boost your productivity so you can reach your academic goals. Each week, a Graduate Academic Coach from the DLC will share useful research and effective strategies to help improve your productivity.

Planning on graduating soon and wanting to pursue a career in higher education, the professoriate? Please join us for this year’s summer workshop series, with experts from across the university. The training will focus on things such as how to write your cover letter, teaching and research statements, preparing for a Zoom interview, and more. Please RSVP and join us for this remote training. The training will occur on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.

Starting date: June 11 - no meetings are scheduled for the week of July 4)

Ending Date: July 9

Sharing kindness is part of being a Buckeye, and while it happens all year at Ohio State, it carries special meaning in this month. February 13 is World Kindness Day and February 17 is Random Acts of Kindness Day.  Over the next two weeks, foster connections and boost happiness throughout our Buckeye community. Let's share kindness together, make a positive impact on our community by encouraging graduate faculty, staff and students in ways that matter most. 

We are still accepting Mentoring Month Mini-Grants through the month of February! Departments and programs, graduate faculty and staff, and graduate student organizations are invited to apply for a Mentoring Month Mini Grant of up to $500 to host an event or initiative to recognize mentors and mentees or celebrate mentorship. Email mentoring@osu.edu with any questions.

Submit an application

From the Ohio State Sustainability Institute

The Ohio State University is dedicated to advancing education, research, innovation and partnerships related to sustainability. To further these goals, the Sustainability Institute is pleased to offer funding to support student research in sustainability.

Priority will be given to student research that creates opportunities to use our campuses as living laboratories or connects Ohio State to our local communities.