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Each year, Ohio University Graduate College funds five Named Fellowships (The John Cady Fellowship, The Donald Clippinger Graduate Fellowship, The Claude Kantner Graduate Fellowship, The Anthony Trisolini Graduate Fellowship, and the Graduate College Fellowship). The fellowships are awarded through a competitive nomination basis. Each award provides a fellowship of $14,487, plus a full tuition scholarship for fall and spring semesters.
 
Each department/school is limited to one nomination. This year the nominations are due by 5 pm on Friday, March 2, 2012. For more information, please email Becky Bushey-Miller or call 740-593-2891.

2011-2012 Named Fellowship Recipients

Cady Fellowship:  Peter Wickman, Ph.D., History
    Britain’s secret war in China 1941-1945

Clippinger Fellowship: Alexander Anning, Ph.D. Environmental & Plant Biology
    Fuel reduction treatment effects on productivity and carbon sequestration in the mixed oak forests of central Appalachians, Ohio

Graduate College Fellowship: Qian Zhang, Ph.D., Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
    Comparing duplexing, multiplexing and multiple access techniques in ad hoc networks

Trisolini Fellowship: Andrew Black, M.F.A., Theater - Playwriting
    Creative Work: development of a full-length play

Kantner Fellowship: Lindsey Rose, Ph.D., Communication Studies
    The role of communication in addressing food insecurity through grassroots organizing

2011-2012 Alternates

Briju Thankachan, Ph.D., Instructional Technology, Education Studies
Angelo Predisik, Ph.D., Interdisciplinary Arts

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Nomination Process:

• A student must be recommended to the graduate chairperson or department/school chairperson by a faculty member. From the list of recommended students, the department/school will select its nominee. A nominee must have a minimum cumulative graduate GPA of 3.0 and should, in the opinion of the nominators, be a truly outstanding student.
• Each department/school may forward the name of only one nominee to Graduate Council.
• The Graduate Council Fellowship Committee reviews the materials submitted and makes its recommendations for the recipients of the Fellowships to Graduate Council.
• Graduate Council votes on the committee recommendation and the awards are generated through the Graduate College.

Nomination Packet includes:

• A project plan. This should be a description of the background, aims, methodologies (if appropriate) and anticipated outcomes for how the year will be spent during the tenure of the Graduate Fellowship. The plan should be no more than two pages single spaced, 12- point font.
• Abbreviated CV of student. No more than two pages.
• A copy of the student’s latest DARS report.
• A letter of nomination from the student’s primary advisor, and two letters of recommendation from other faculty members. Each letter should be no more than two pages in length.
• Nomination packets must be submitted electronically to namedfellows@ohio.edu by the school/department. This nomination packet must include all of the above plus a scanned copy of the completed/signed nomination form.

Nomination Deadline:

• The nomination deadline is 5 pm on Friday, March 2, 2012.  Fellowship finalists will be posted on this page following the April 13, 2012 meeting of Graduate Council.