By Joseph Hughes
Dawn Black and Jeremy J. Greenberg , two Ohio University graduate students, have earned recognition for their studies. Black has been awarded the National Science Foundation Fellowship, while Greenberg was named the International Sculpture Center's "Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award."
Black's fellowship provides three years of financial support and tuition and fees totaling more than $144,500. In addition, the program offers a one-time international research travel allowance for fellows who plan to study or do full-time research at a foreign site for at least three continuous months.
NSF Graduate Fellowships offer recognition and three years of support for advanced study to approximately 900 outstanding graduate students in the mathematical, physical, biological, engineering and behavioral and social sciences and to research-based Ph.D. degrees in science education.
Black is a second-year Ph.D. student in the environmental and plant biology program. She was named the 2001 Eleanor M. Ford Outstanding Senior in Science and the Coleman-Cobb-Postawa Outstanding Student in Undergraduate Research. In 2001, she was awarded the NSF Undergraduate Diversity Grant.
The International Sculpture Center (ISC) established the annual "Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award" program to recognize young sculptors and to encourage their continued commitment to the field. It was also designed to draw attention to the sculpture programs of the participating universities, colleges and art schools.
This year, a record number of institutions participated, including 100 universities, colleges and art school sculpture programs from four countries for a nominated total of 346 students.
After a rigorous and competitive process, the distinguished jury selected 15 winners and three honorable mentions. The selection of the winners from such a vast pool of applicants is a testament to the artistic promise of the student's work.
The 15 award recipients will participate in the Grounds For Sculpture's Fall/Winter Exhibition, which will be on view from Oct. 11, 2003, to April 11, 2004, in Hamilton, N.J., adjacent to the ISC headquarters. The artists' work - including Greenberg's - will also be featured in a future issue of the International Sculpture Center's award-winning publication, Sculpture magazine, and on the award-winning ISC Web site, www.sculpture.org.
Joseph Hughes is a writer with University Communications and Marketing.
