2026

William R. Riley GTA Awards:

• Daria Sharifi
• Katherine Schwind

GTA Awards:

• Valeria Arteaga Muniz
• Daniel Sharkey

2025

William R. Riley GTA Award:

• Osip Surdutovich

GTA Awards:

• Lucas Nestor
• Connor Davis
• Frank Hegedus
• Merlin Hart
• Alican Saray
• Joseph Duncan
• Christian Zupan
• Aiswarya Prasannakumar Amalucottage
• Allison Lucas
• Christian Querrey

2024

William R. Riley GTA Awards:

• Nicholas Jindal
• Simon Sundberg

GTA Awards:

• Ryan Buechele
• Poulomi Chakraborty
• Mikel Charles
• Nihar Dalal
• Carlos DeLeon
• Emmy Freudenrich
• Spencer Griffith
• Daniel Halbing
• Xihe Han
• Anthony Harbo Torres
• Lauren (Lolo) Jones
• Connor Kelly
• Nagananda Krishnamurthy
• Katherine Laliotis
• Mathew Leon
• Oleksandr Molchanov
• Lucas Nestor
• Daria L. Sharifi
• Pranav Sharma
• Joseph Surdutovich
• Tiana Townsend
• Erik Zaborowski

Service Awards:

• Dennis Calderon Madera
• Poulomi Chakraborty
• Rob Claassen
• Donley Cormode
• Nihar Dalal
• Jared Gdanski
• Brock Grafstrom
• Morgan Hamilton
• Ellie Holmgren
• Kazi Imroz
• Lolo Jones
• Connor Kelly
• Emily Koivu
• Will Koll
• Naganda Krishnamurthy
• Katherine Laliotis
• Zhihan Li
• Youwei Liu
• Jeremy Low
• Charlie Mace
• Alan Salcedo Gomez
• Dheeraj Sapkota
• Katherine Schwind
• Christopher Thompson
• Suriyaa Valliapan Ramanathan

The Bunny and Thomas Clark Scholarship Endowment Fund was established July 7, 2006, by a gift from Bunny & Tom Clark for the purpose of furthering the diversity mission in the department for undergraduate and graduate students.

2019:  Emilio Codecido (Jeanie Lau), Kelly Luo (Roland Kawakami) 

 2018: Shaun Hampton (Samir Mathur)

2017: Shirley Li (John Beacom)  

2016: Anne Benjamin (Jay Gupta)

2012: Marci Howdyshell (R. Sooryakumar)

2010: Emily Sistrunk (Lou DiMauro)

2009: Huichao Song (Ulrich Heinz)

2008: Sarah Parks (Zeke Johnston-Halperin)

The Presidential Fellowship is the most prestigious award given by the Graduate School. Recipients of this award embody the highest standards of scholarship in the full range of Ohio State's graduate programs. 

The Presidential Fellowship - OSU Graduate School 

2025-26:

• Sayak Biswas
• Xueshi Gao
• Katherine Laliotis
• Obada Nairat

2024-25:

• Poulomi Chakraborty
• Charles Mace
• Brandon Manley
• Erik Zaborowski
• Yuxin Zhang

2023-24:

• Po Wen Chang
• Igor Lyalin
• Madhur Mehta
• Haidong Tian

Sp2020: Yang Cheng, Liping He

Au2019: Aidan Lee

Sp2019: Shi Che

Sp2018: Kelly Luo

Au2017: Josh Furguson, Shaun Hampton, Meng Keng Yuan

Sp2017: Beth Bushong, Tim McCormick

Au2016: Zhou Wang

Sp2016: Shirley Li

Au2015: Dane Hudson Smith

Sp2015: Kenny Ng

Au2014: Eric Suchyta

Sp2014: Kaikai Zhang

Au2013: Archana Anandakrishnan

Sp2013: Mark Patrick, William Cole

Au2012: Chun Shen, Oinam Nganba Meetei

Sp2012: Weiran Li

Au2011: Marek Simon, Aaron Chen

Sp2011: Greg Vierira

Au2009: Taeyoung Choi

Sp2009: Matthew Kistler

The Dr. Clifford Heer Graduate Student Scholarship Award Fund in the Department of Physics was established September 21, 2007, with gifts in memory of Professor Emeritus Clifford Heer (B.S.Phys., 1942; Ph.D., 1949) from his wife, Esther Heer (B.S., 1949) and other family members for the purposes of recognizing scholarship in the field of Physics.

  2017: Ginny Cochran (Doug Schumacher), Stanley Steers (Tom Lemberger), Anne Benjamin (Jay Gupta)

  2016: Shirey Li (John Beacom), Nicolas Scozzaro (Chris Hammel), Michael Page (Chris Hammel)

  2014: Shirley Li (John Beacom)

  2012: Heer: Archana Anandakrishnan (Stuart Raby), Justin North (Michael Poirier).  DeMartini: David Gohlke (Jay Gupta)

  2010: Heer: Adam Hauser (Fengyuan Yang) and Inhee Lee (Chris Hammel). DeMartini: Robert Forties (Michael Poirier)

  2009: Heer: Donghun Lee (Jay Gupta), Taeyoung Choi (Jay Gupta) 

Ennesser,  Lauren (2017)

Caulfield, Ryan (2016)

Clark, Brian (2014)

Hendricks, Khalida (2013)

Rowland, James (2013)

Brinson, Jessica (2010)

Rajaram, Sara (2010)

Steers, Stanley (2010)

Swanson, Mason (2009)

Teeling, Richelle (2009)

Szafruga, Urszula  (2009)

Wendt, Kyle, (2009) DOE Office of Science Graduate Fellowship

2026

ASC 3-Minute Thesis Winner:

• Zoe Phillips

Graduate Associate Leadership Award Winner:

• Alex Schimmoller

Graduate Student Award for Mentoring Excellence

This award was created to honor an advanced graduate student who provides exemplary and effective mentoring for undergraduate and/or new graduate students.  The nature of the mentoring may include mentees’ personal, professional, and/or academic success. 

2020: Humberto Gilmer, Noah Charles 

2026

• Dennis Calderon-Madera
• Alican Saray

2026

• Heather Mei
• Zoe Riesen