The Ohio State University and Wilberforce University partnership around STEM brought together faculty and postdocs from both institutions for a multidisciplinary minisymposium, hosted March 20, 2024, on the Wilberforce campus. The Ohio State Multidisciplinary Minisymposium at Wilberforce University was made possible thanks to support from the National Science Foundation (GR133174, PI: Zakee Sabree) and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation (GR128445, PI: Zakee Sabree).
The Graduate School is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2023‐2024 Graduate Associate Teaching Awards (GATA). GATA is the premier award for celebrating excellence in teaching at the graduate level. Recipients of the GATA are nominated by faculty, staff and students through an anonymous nomination process.
The Ohio College of Personnel Association recently awarded their 2024 Robert F. Rogers Graduate Student of the Year award to Julie Schnell. Julie was nominated for the award by colleagues in Leadership and Community Engagement for her work as the Graduate Teaching Associate for Local Service Programs. At the time of the nomination, Julie was unaware that her colleagues had submitted her name which led to a further surprise when she received the award.
Five graduate students presented their research during the recent Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition, hosted by the Graduate School.
From the Office of International Affairs
For the fifth consecutive year, The Ohio State University has been named a top producer of the Fulbright U.S. Student Program and is tied for 13th in the nation, the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs announced today.
From Department of Biomedical Engineering
The Ohio State University’s Biomedical Engineering Graduate Student Association (BMEGSA) members organized an outreach event for elementary and middle school students at Windsor STEM Academy, a local public school in Columbus, Ohio.
"Over the past century, ACLS has supported individual scholars and scholarly teams around the world in their pursuit of research with the potential to advance knowledge in the humanities and interpretive social sciences. [Their] current focus includes providing more pathways for those who have traditionally had less access to external research support and scholarly resources, including first-generation scholars, people from historically marginalized communities, and non-tenure track faculty."
From the College of Social Work
Congratulations to alumna Dr. Erin Tebben (PhD ’23) who was honored as the recipient of the 2024 Society for Social Work and Research Outstanding Social Work Doctoral Dissertation Award.
Piao Yang a grad student from the Ohio State Plant Pathology program has recently participated in several publications around research into detecting, diagnosis and prevention of plant pathogens.
Yang, who completed a BS and MS from Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University in China has been very active working in research labs here at Ohio State under Ye Xia and recently Shuai Huang with research interest in plant immunity, plant-microbe interactions, bioinformatics, cell biology, and biochemistry.