The National Science Foundation has honored nine engineering students at Ohio State. Seven undergraduates were named Graduate Research Fellows, and two were given Honorable Mentions.
The Graduate Research Fellowship provides three years of support for students who are at the early stages of study in preparation for research-based master�s or doctoral degrees.
�NSF Graduate Research Fellows are recognized as a national barometer of student quality. Those students who win will be accepted into the top graduate programs in the country,� says David Tomasko, professor of chemical and bimolecular engineering and director of the Honors Collegium at Ohio State. �Producing such students reflects positively on Ohio State with our colleagues at those institutions, and those colleagues are partially responsible for the ranking and reputation of our college.�
The fellowship allows students the ultimate flexibility in choosing a graduate program, Tomasko adds.
�When a graduate student comes into a department with a Graduate Research Fellowship, faculty will actively recruit these students into their research groups because they represent the highest quality of student available,� he says. �These students become the equivalent of �blue chip� recruits for graduate schools.�
The students and their awards:
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellows
- Celeste Chavis � Civil Engineering
- Laura Ensign � Chemical Engineering
- Bethany Frew � Food, Agricultural, & Biological Engineering
- Thomas Malott � Chemical Engineering
- Kevin Ponziani � Electrical Engineering
- Micah Springer � Aerospace Engineering
- Theresa Vonder Haar � Chemical Engineering
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Honorable Mentions
- James Cryan � Engineering Physics
- William Cash � Mechanical Engineering
