A "staged meeting" with graduate studies and the chair was the setting in 4138 PRB on Tuesday April 8 for the "surprise" visit by President Joe Alutto, Executive Dean David Manderscheid and Sr. Associate Vice President for Research Jan Weisenberger.  These OSU administrators arrived to interrupt the meeting with the news that Samir Mathur is a 2014 recipient of one of six Distinguished Scholar Awards.

Samir was totally surprised as were many of the members of the meeting.  The Office of Research awards the Distinguished Scholar Awards annually to faculty members who demonstrate scholarly activity, research, or other creative works which represent exceptional achievements in their fields.

Recipients receive a $20,000 research grant and a $3,000 honorarium to pursue their scholarly activity.

Samir joins a long list of our distinguished faculty who have won this award, including most recently - Lou DiMauro, Junko Shigemitsu, Ulrich Heinz, Eric Braaten and Jason Ho.  For a full list of faculty award winners, please see  https://physics.osu.edu/about-us and scroll down to Ohio State University Distinguished Faculty Awardees.

It is worth noting that Samir also won the University Distinguished Teaching Award in 2003.

Congratulations Samir!