GRADUATE STUDENT AWARDS
E. Willard & Ruby S. Miller Fellowship Outstanding PhD Student
The highest recognition the department can bestow on a graduate student. This award is given in recognition of an outstanding graduate student/s on the basis of demonstrated success in writing, scholarship, and potential to become leaders as professional geographers.
Zack Leasor
Guille Bervejillo
Fenburr Scholarship for Outstanding PhD Student
This award is given to graduate students to facilitate professional development activities related to the conduct or dissemination of research, such as training workshops, conferences and fieldwork.
Alex Ihle
Guille Bervejillo
T.R. Lakshmanan & Lata Chatterjee Award
This award recognizes a distinguished PhD student in geography who is either from the Global South (Asia, Africa or Latin America) or carrying out research on the Global South, focused on issues of benefit to humanity and has demonstrated professional promise.
Luyu Liu
Lingwei Li
Rayner Scholarship for Field Work
This award supports graduate student fieldwork and is awarded to students who have been recommended by a majority of the faculty in the Department of Geography.
Megan Lindstrom
Presidential Fellowships
The Presidential Fellowship is the most prestigious award given by the Graduate School. Recipients of this award embody the highest standards of scholarship in the full range of Ohio State’s graduate programs. These fellowships are awarded competitively and provide one year of full-time financial support.
Zhiying Li
2019-2020 Sharpe Innovation Commons Seed Grant
The Seed grants are designed to provide funding for students to facilitate their research and engagement. There are several elements that are key to the awarding of these seed grants. The first is that the focus of the researcher or research team be built around students, both undergraduates, and graduates. The second is that the research being done is interdisciplinary. This can be across Geography or across campus. The third is that the research being done must demonstrate innovation in the field.
Zack Leasor
UNDERGRADUATE AWARDS
Gary L. Sharpe Scholarship for Outstanding Undergraduates
This award provides need-based scholarships in the Department of Geography with preference given to those students from the State of Ohio that demonstrate excellence in their designated program of study.
Connor McNamara
Casey Carter
Ken Crowl
Ethan Carver-Dews
Joelle Zuberi
Tanner Barnes
Christian Studt
Fenburr Scholarship for Women and Underrepresented Groups
The undergraduate Fenburr scholarship is intended to aid students that are underrepresented in the discipline of geography.
Wen Hui Tan
Tymir Simpson
CC Huntington Memorial Award
This scholarship is awarded to an outstanding student in Geography.
Mia Murray
Arthur H. Robinson Scholarship Outstanding Undergraduate Geography Major
This award is given to students to support research to exemplary undergraduate students in the discipline of geography.
Serim Kim
Alex Lebowitz
Emme Mattaridi
Stephanie Crisco
Edward J. “Ned” Taaffe Scholarship – Outstanding Undergraduate in ASP
This award is given to students to support research to exemplary undergraduate students in the discipline of atmospheric sciences.
John Bumgardner
Emily LIll
Eddie Wolff
Lewis Family Scholarship
This scholarship provides merit-based awards to undergraduates in the Department of Geography with a preference given to candidates majoring in Geographic Information Sciences with interests in cartography.
Claire Mercer
Jackson Shiffert
Jacob Stevens
Lucas Van Dyke
Chinyu Liu
STAFF AWARDS
S. Earl Brown Outstanding Staff
This annual award recognizes staff members in the Department of Geography who have demonstrated excellence in overall job performance above and beyond their prescribed duties and responsibilities thereby advancing the department’s research, teaching, and faculty foci. Additional consideration will be given to those staff members who enhance the profile of the department through their work and connections.
Jocelyn Nevel
