5/28/98
ATHENS, Ohio -- The Ohio University Graduate Council has selected five graduate fellows for the 1998-99 school year. The students, selected from a pool of 12 nominees, will receive a $10,000 service-free stipend and tuition scholarship beginning fall quarter 1998.
Each school or department offering a graduate degree program at Ohio University may nominate one student for a graduate fellowship. A fifth fellowship, called the Graduate Fellowship, was added to the traditional four awards this year.
"Graduate fellowships are important because they recognize scholarship, research, professional achievement, teaching skills and leadership of the graduate students at Ohio University," said Gordon Schanzenbach, assistant vice president for graduate studies. "The service-free stipend allows a student to focus more intently upon his or her individual research, academic efforts and professional development."
Doctoral candidates and the fellowships they received are: Loralyn Hilton, biological sciences, the John Cady Fellowship; Laura Justice, School of Hearing and Speech Sciences, the Anthony Trisolini Fellowship; Elizabeth Bernat, School of Interpersonal Communication, the Claude Kantner Fellowship; Christine Small, environmental and plant biology, the Donald Clippinger Fellowship; and Lisa Brooten, School of Telecommunications, the Graduate Fellowship.