The Graduate School has announced this week the winners of the 2023-24 Graduate School Presidential Fellowship competition!

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.

Physics students selected:

Po Wen Change; Advisor Prof. John Beacom, Astrophysics Theory;   Dissertation Title: “Advancing the frontier of supernova neutrino astronomy with machine learning”

Igor Lyalin; Advisor Prof. Roland Kawakam, Condensed Matter Experimental Physics; Dissertation Title: “Magneto-Optical Study of the Orbital Hall Effect”

Madhur Mehta; Advisor Prof. Samir Mathur, High Energy Physics Theory ; Dissertation Title: “Through the looking glass—Black holes in String Theory”

Haidong Tian; Advisor Prof. Jeannie Lau, Condensed Matter Experimental Physics; Dissertation Title: ” Exploring Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect in Helical Twisted Trilayer Graphene”

Honorable Mention for nominated students who were not selected:

Michael Carrigan; Advisor Prof. Chris Hill,  Experimental High-Energy Particle Physics; Dissertation Title: “Searches for Long-Lived Particles at the CMS and milliQan Experiments”

Yuxin Wang; Advisor Prof. Jeannie Lau, Condensed Matter Experimental Physics; Dissertation Title: “Quantum Transport Studies on Pentagonal Two-dimensional Materials”

Congratulations to all of our student winners!

OSU Article for all 2023-24 Presidential Fellowship Winners, linked here.