The OSU Graduate School has announced the 2024-2025 Presidential Fellowship recipients. The Presidential Fellowship is the most prestigious award given by the Graduate School to recognize the outstanding scholarly accomplishments and potential of graduate students entering the final phase of their dissertation research or terminal degree project.

This year, there are five winners from The Department of Physics! Congratulations to this year's cohort.

"Presidential Fellowships recognize outstanding scholarly accomplishments and potential of graduate students entering the final phase of their dissertation research or terminal degree project."

Physics 2024-25 recipients:

• Chakraborty, Poulomi- Prof. Brian Skinner, Condensed Matter Theory, “Defining design principles for topological thermoelectrics”                    
• Mace, Charles- Prof. Anika Peter, Astroparticle Theory, “Illuminating Dark Matter with Gravitational Lens Simulations”
• Manley, Brandon- Prof. Yuri Kovchegov, Nuclear Theory, “Orbital Angular Momentum of Quarks and Gluons at Small x”               
• Zaborowski, Erik- Prof. Klaus Honscheid, Astroparticle Experiment, “Measuring the Expanding Universe Without the Sound Horizon with DESI”                     
• Zhang, Yuxin- Prof. Jeannie Lau, Condensed Matter Theory, “Quantum Transport Studies on Pentagonal Two-dimensional Materials”

Congratulations, everyone!