On Friday April 6’Th the Department conducted the annual Graduation and Awards ceremony at the Faculty club.

We would like to thank all who participated and give a summary of the awards and honors.

Scroll down to follow the entire event and see more pictures on our Facebook Page

Department of Geography Chairman Dr. Morton O'Kelly getting the show on the road by first Congratulating this extensive list of brilliant Geography and Atmospheric Sciences Under Graduate Majors who finished their degrees during the past year SU15, AU15, and SP16:

Brittany Nicolette Anderson      BA Environment & Society, Honors
Cruz Lee Bonlarron                    BA Urban, Regional & Global Studies
Warren David Brantingham        BA Urban, Regional & Global Studies
James Michael Brennan             BS Geographic Information Science, SCL, ASC Honors
Kevin Liszkay                                BA Air Transportation
Sebastian Norgaard                     BA Air Transportation
Ryan Daniel Ymeri                        BS Geography Information Sciences
Christopher M. Culbertson         BA Minor Geography
John Banghoff                              BS Atmospheric Sciences SCL with Honors Research Distinction
Peter Bedrosian                               BS Geographic Information Science
Mallory Buckley                               BS Atmospheric Sciences, Cum Laude    
Giafranco Casassa                           BA Geography
Nicholas Ciereck                              BS Geographic Information Sciences
Steven Dade                                      BA Geography
Eric DoBroka                                    BS Atmospheric Sciences
Taylor Donahue                                BA Geography
James Donavan                               BS Geographic Information Sciences
Lainie Rini                                         BA Geography, MCL with Honors Research Distinction
Amanda Rogers                                BA Geography
Brian Rosa                                       BS Atmospheric Sciences
Matthew Ruhe                                 BS Geographic Information Sciences
Yujue Song                                         BS Geographic Information Sciences
Bryan Webb                                       BS Geographic Information Sciences
Ashton Bishop                                  BA Minor Geography
George Kankia                                  BA Minor Geography
Ahmed Mohamednur                    BA Minor Geography
Matthew Ryan                                  BA Minor Geography
Christina Sergakis                            BA Minor Geography
Zachery Studer                                 BA Minor Geography
Cory Taylor Aiken                            BS Geographic Information Sciences
Kelvin C. Anakor                              BS Geographic Information Sciences
Austin Armstrong                            BS Atmospheric Sciences                             
Andrew Baird                                    BS Geographic Information Sciences
Allison Baker                                     BS Geographic Information Sciences
Maxfield Barach                               BS Geographic Information Sciences
Catherine Beaufort                         BA Air Transportation
Matthew Brehm                              BS Geographic Information Sciences
Elon Brown                                         BS Geography
Alec Butner                                        BA Atmospheric Sciences
James Cavoli                                      BS Geographic Information Sciences
Christian Cervantes                        BS Geographic Information Sciences
Dennis Check                                    BA Geography, Magna Cum Laude
Siying Chen                                        BS Geographic Information Sciences Magana Cum Laude
Rachael DeMartinez                       BA Geography
Jonathan Deel                                   BA Geography
Allison Dennis                                  BA Air Transportation
Rachel Dougherty                            BS Atmospheric Sciences, Magna Cum Laude
Noel Fisher                                        BA Geography
Anthony Grigg                                  BA Geography, Magna Cum Laude
Benjamin Grutsch                           BA Air Transportation
Stephen Guendert                          BS BA Geography
Michelle Hablitzel                          BA Geography, Summa Cum Laude with Honors Research Distinction
Daniel Hagquist                              BS Geographic Information Sciences
Nathaniel Henry                              BS Geographic Information Sciences SCL with Honors Res. Distinction
Jerin Jacob                                      BS Geographic Information Sciences
Michael Kalvas                                 BS Geographic Information Sciences
Nathan Kitchen                                 BS Geographic Information Sciences
Rachel Kreider                                  BA Geography
Cora Lange                                          BA Geography, Cum Laude
Jesse Maag                                         BS Atmospheric Sciences
Jordan Mc Millian                           BS Geographic Information Sciences
Chole Mercier                                   BS Atmospheric Sciences
Rebecca Miller                                 BS Atmospheric Sciences, Magna Cum Laude
Brandon Perez                                  BA Air Transportation
Patricia Perry                                     BA Geography
Michael Peters                                 BS Geographic Information Sciences
Richard Reed                                     BS Geographic Information Sciences
Lucas Scarasso                                   BA Geography
Lynsie Schwerer                               BS Atmospheric Sciences
Catherine Shields                            BA Air Transportation
Nathaniel Shutt                                 BS Atmospheric Sciences
Timothy Slarb                                    BA Air Transportation
Andrew Smith                                   BS Atmospheric Sciences
Daniel Steiner                                   BA Air Transportation 
Lydia Trischler                                   BA Air Transportation
Ernest Ulle                                         BS Geographic Information Sciences
Andrew Van Gundy                           BA Geography
Marisa Vazquez                               BS Geographic Information Sciences
Michael Walton                               BA Air Transportation, Cum Laude
Cameron Wengerd                         BS Geographic Information Sciences
Michael Wiencek                            BA Air Transportation
Ryan Zahora                                    BA Air Transportation

The following Masters Students reached their Degrees during this period SU15, AU15 and SP16:

Ariel Rawson, MA,                          SU15
Natasha Sadoff, MA,                      SU15
Jonathan Wille, MS,                      SU15
Ryan Landon Crumley, MA,           AU15
Muzi Feng, MA,                               AU15
Peixuan Jiang, MA,                         AU15
Karen Pon, MS,                               AU15
Nicholas Anthony Sakian, MS,      AU15

And, from this past semester,

The following PhD Students reached their degrees during this period SU15, AU15 and SP16:

Sayoni Bose, PhD,           SU15 (Advisor: Becky Mansfield)
Ying Song, PhD,                SU15 (Advisor: Harvey Miller)
Bo Zhao, PhD,                    SU15 (Advisor:  Daniel Sui)
Young Rae Choi, PhD,    AU15 (Advisor: Becky Mansfield)
Zoe Pearson, PhD,           SP16 (Advisor:  Kendra McSweeney)
Calvin Tribby, PhD,         SP16 (Advisor:   Harvey Miller)

After honoring all of our graduates Mat Coleman, Chair of Undergraduate Studies, handed out undergraduate awards and scholarships.

Sharpe Scholarship for Outstanding Undergraduates. This scholarship was established with funds from the Gary L. Sharpe Scholarship Fund in Geography, which was established in 2010. This scholarship provides funds for undergraduate students in any of our majors. Students who receive this award are chosen based on their excellence in the classroom.
Rachel Beery, Eliza Alpeter, Nathan On, Cara Gregg, Alyssa Reynolds, Ellyse Ridgway, Luke Scharfenberger, Anne Smith, Mary Grace Thibault, Joshua Steiner, Seth Tribby, Derek Witt and Courtney Zimmer

 

The Fenburr Scholarship for Women and Underrepresented Groups. This scholarship was started in 2012. It was established with funds from the Herbert and Dorothy Joseph Fenburr Scholarship Endowment Fund for Geography, which was established in 2002. The funds are to be used to support undergraduate students, with a special focus on both academic excellence and professional development.
Rebecca Rose Martin, Mary Grace Thibault and Megan Russell

 

Charles Clifford Huntington Scholarship for Outstanding Undergraduate Students - Geography Majors. This award was established with funds from the Charles Clifford Huntington Memorial Fund, established in 1957 by a generous gift from Helen Hughes Huntington in the memory of her husband, Professor Charles Clifford Huntington, who taught here at Ohio State, starting I believe in 1909, just a few years before our department was officially born.
Dennis Check and Lainie Rini



 

Graduate Student Awards were distributed by Becky Mandsfield, Chair Graduate Studies.

Fenburr Travel Scholarship for Outstanding Graduate Students, Offsets the costs of travel associated with professional development activities related to the conduct or dissemination of research, such as training workshops, conferences, or fieldwork.
Zack Paganini, Emelie Bailey, Hui Kong,  Ashley Toenjes and Becky Mansfield

T. R. Lakshmanan & Lata Chatterjee Fellowship for Outstanding PhD Students.
Recognizes a distinguished PhD student in the Department of Geography who is either from the Global South (Asia, Africa, or Latin America) or carrying out research on the Global South.
Professionally focused on issues of benefit to humanity and has demonstrated professional promise.
Nora Sylvander, Sam Kay & Chair GS Becky Mansfield

Rayner Scholarship for Fieldwork. Supports fieldwork by graduate students - data generation including expenses related to travel to a field site, supply or equipment costs, access fees or other research‐related expenses.
Minkyung Koh & Chair GS Becky Mansfield

 

E. Willard and Ruby S. Miller Fellowship Award. The highest recognition the department can bestow on a graduate student. Given in recognition of potential to make a major contribution to geography particularly through scholarship and scholarly writing.  An award recipient is designated as an E. Willard and Ruby S. Miller Fellow for one year.
Yongha Park and Olliver Wigmore with Chair GS Becky Mansfield

 

The Chair of the personel committee, Ed Malecki then proceeded to give out the Staff award,

S. Earl Brown Outstanding Staff Award. Recognition of an individual staff member in the department of Geography who has demonstrated excellence in overall job performance above and beyond their prescribed duties.
Brook Raake, Ed Malecki

And last but not least, Geography Chairman Morton O'Kelly awarded the

Lawrence A. Brown Faculty Award
Max Wodworth

 

Congratulations to all of our graduates and award winners, we wish you all the very best in your future endeavors.