Our students are continuing an OHIO tradition of winning nationally competitive awards, which academically speaking is like winning Olympic gold.
This site profiles some of our award-winning students. Many other OHIO scholars are competing for and winning honors from organizations across the nation. For an expanded listing and additional information, please visit the Office of Nationally Competitive Awards Web site.
As our academic community works together to build on a 200-year legacy of excellence, we salute the outstanding achievements of our students and the dedicated faculty members who support them in their remarkable endeavors.
Congratulations—you make us all very proud!
Related Links
If you are a current Ohio University student and would like to learn more about competing for these scholarships, visit our Office of Nationally Competitive Awards online.
If you are a prospective student and would like to find out more about the opportunities available at Ohio University, please visit our admissions Web site.
About the Fulbright Award
The Fulbright Program, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State with additional support provided by participating governments and international host institutions, is our country’s largest international exchange program. It offers opportunities for students, scholars, and professionals to undertake advanced research, teaching, and learning opportunities in locations around the world. As established by Congress in 1946, the goal of the program is to “increase mutual understanding between people of the United States and the people of other countries.”
The international scope of these awards make OHIO’s Fulbright scholars our adventurers—and our ambassadors—as they apply the academic skills they’ve honed at Ohio University in continuing their studies around the world.
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Fulbright Award
 International Affairs, Southeast Asian Studies
College of Arts and Sciences
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Matthew Minarchek
A native of Cambridge, Ohio, Matthew is a master’s student in Southeast Asian studies. He hopes to highlight the effects of rural energy development on small communities in Indonesia. He would like to eventually teach anthropology, development, and Southeast Asian studies at the university level. In addition to participating in the Fulbright scholarship, he has completed and successfully defended his master’s thesis and conducted ethnographic field research in three rural Indonesian communities during the summer of 2008.
“So often, development in the Global South has worked to benefit multinational corporations and governments while leaving the local communities behind,” Matthew explains. “With this award, I will work directly with a rural community to explore how small-scale development and access to electricity has impacted their lives, for the better or worse.”
“Matthew has taken advantage of opportunities to get hands-on experience while studying environmental issues. At Ohio University, Matthew won a grant to go to Indonesia to look at micro-hydro projects in remote areas of the country. His Fulbright will support further research in environmentally sustainable development in Indonesia.”
Elizabeth Collins, associate professor, Department of Classics and World Religions
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