The Ohio State University Grants and Awards for Graduate Students
The university has several programs for graduate students that provide funding for research and travel, opportunities to develop one's skills as a teacher, and awards for excellent teaching or service.Alumni Grants for Graduate Research and Scholarship
The Alumni grants for Graduate Research and Scholarship (AGGRS) provide up to $2000 for dissertation research support to doctoral candidates without any other research support from their department or advisor due to lack of funds. Other eligible candidates include those pursuing a comparable graduate degree requiring a thesis. Although eligibility is based on financial need, awards are based on merit.All doctoral candidates who have passed the Candidacy Exam and whose dissertation project has been approved by their advisor are eligible to apply. MFA students are also eligible to apply for funds to support their MFA project. Previous AGGRS awardees are not eligible for a second award. The competition is held twice each year, during Autumn and Spring Quarters. Faculty members of the University Research Committee, representing all ten academic areas, will review applications and make final recommendations to the Dean of the Graduate School. For more information and an application form, see: http://www.gradsch.ohio-state.edu/content.aspx?content=55&itemid=2
Arts & Sciences International Travel Grants
Contact Ann Rottersman, Director of Student and Alumni Programs in the Arts & Sciences (rottersman.1@osu.edu) for information on International Travel Grants, Supplemental Research Grants, the Estelle Southard Fellowship, and the Roth Family Endowment Fund Fellowship. For more information, consult the following site (scroll to the bottom of the page): Arts & Sciences International Travel GrantsCGS Ray Travel Award for Scholarship and Service
The Council of Graduate Students Edward J. Ray Travel Award encourages and enables graduate students across the university to participate in professional conferences, both in their respective fields and in the broader community by reimbursing or partially reimbursing the expenses incurred by graduate students during travel to conferences and meetings to present original research.The Ray Award evaluators give substantial weight to the applicant's service to his/her department, the university, and the surrounding community when making award decisions. Evaluators also take into account the academic standing of the applicant, the applicant's professional goals, the nature of the conference being attended, and the applicant's ability to convey the focus of his/her research to a general audience.
Eligibility information is available at http://cgs.osu.edu/funding/ray_eligibility.aspx and applications can be found online at http://cgs.osu.edu/start-a.asp. This is a quarterly competition.
Council of Graduate Students Distinguished Service Award
The Council of Graduate Students annually recognizes members of the university community (students, faculty, and staff) for their exceptional support of the graduate student population and for their contributions to enhancing the graduate student experience. A commemorative certificate is presented to each recipient.Nomination Deadline: The nomination process takes place early in Spring Quarter and awards are given in May. Contact the Council of Graduate Students for more information at cgs@osu.edu, 208 Ohio Union, 292-4380 or visit: http://cgs.org.ohio-state.edu/gov/res-0304-019.shtml.
Critical Difference for Women Awards
This is a scholarship/grant-offering program of OSU that provides financial support to women students (and some men), faculty, and staff. It offers (1) Re-entry Scholarships for women who have interrupted their education due to unforeseen obstacles such as family responsibilities or financial constraints and who are seeking undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees; and (2) Coca-Cola Dissertation Grants for Research on Women, Gender, and Gender Equity. Administered through the Women's Studies Department, these awards typically have a spring deadline. See: http://www.http://www.criticaldifference.osu.edu/AboutCDW.htm.CSTW Dissertation Research Awards
This Center for the Study and Teaching of Writing program makes two awards of up to $2,500 available for graduate students with an approved dissertation prospectus, to support research about the teaching of writing or the study of writing. Deadline: Thursday, November 1, 2007.CSTW Research on Writing and Composition in 21st Century Contexts Grants
This Center for the Study and Teaching of Writing program awards eight $3,000-$5,000 grants per year for three years and is intended to encourage the study of writing and composition, broadly defined. Research projects will attempt to address the full range of digital and non-digital contexts that characterize writing and composition in the 21st century. Deadline: Between the sixth and seventh week of the term.Edward F. Hayes Graduate Research Forum
Every spring quarter, the Council of Graduate Students hosts the Edward F. Hayes Research Forum for graduate study at The Ohio State University. Students enrolled in any area of graduate study at The Ohio State University are invited are invited to submit their work. Submissions are due in January. In February, eight papers from each of the 10 graduate school areas are chosen for the competition. Those selected give a public presentation on their research. Three winners are selected from each of the 10 Graduate School areas, and the winners are announced in April at the Research Forum. First prize is $300 cash and a $500 travel award, second prize is $200 cash, and third prize is $100 cash. For more information: http://cgs.osu.edu/funding/hayes.aspxForeign Language Area Studies Fellowships
These awards are provided through the following Area Studies programs. Deadline February, 2008.
The East Asian Studies Center FLAS application is available at:
http://easc.osu.edu/contents/FLAS.pdf [PDF]
The Center for Slavic and East European Studies FLAS application is available at:
http://slaviccenter.osu.edu/flas_fellowship_home.html
The Middle East Studies Center FLAS application is available at:
http://mesc.osu.edu.
http://easc.osu.edu/contents/FLAS.pdf [PDF]
The Center for Slavic and East European Studies FLAS application is available at:
http://slaviccenter.osu.edu/flas_fellowship_home.html
The Middle East Studies Center FLAS application is available at:
http://mesc.osu.edu.
Graduate Associate Teaching Award
The Graduate Associate Teaching Award (GATA) is the University's highest recognition of the exceptional teaching provided by graduate students at Ohio State. A $1500 award is given to the ten GATA recipients along with a plaque, which is presented to the awardees during a visit to their classes. For more information and a nomination form, see: http://www.gradsch.ohio-state.edu/content.aspx?content=21&itemid=3.Kirwan Institute Small Grants
The Kirwan Institute Small Grants Program is intended to encourage, stimulate, promote and support research and scholarship that will enhance the Institute’s central mission: Deepening the understanding of the causes of and solutions to racial and ethnic disparity and hierarchy within the University, the city, the region, the country and the international community. Ohio State University faculty, staff, and students who are involved in or planning research projects that focus on marginalized racial and ethnic groups are eligible to apply for funding from the Small Grants Program. Financial support may be used for research, conferences and other convenings, travel and other activity deemed appropriate by the Kirwan Institute Small Grants Review Committee. No deadline.The Mershon Center for International Security Studies Grants
Supports travel, research, or enrollment in courses at accredited universities in other countries. Funds may be used for a variety of purposes related to the conduct of research and study: travel costs, food and lodging expenses, tuition at an accredited foreign institution, interview or library fees, survey costs, and other expenses related to the student's research project..Office of International Affairs Dissertation/MA Thesis Research Travel Grants
Supports international travel for: (1) pre-dissertation preliminary research; (2) doctoral dissertation research; and (3) research necessary to complete a Masters thesis (for students in those units where the Masters is typically the terminal degree). The competition is open to all OSU students who are currently enrolled in a graduate degree program. Grants average between $1,500 and $2,000, with a maximum award of $3,000. Deadline: Sometime in Spring Quarter.The Phyllis Krumm Memorial Scholarship
The next competition will be held in Spring 2008. Up to three awards of $1,000 each will be given to deserving graduate students for research or study in a European country or in China. Applicants must be enrolled as a post-baccalaureate student at OSU in an academic program of study in any field. Students must demonstrate excellence in scholarship and an appropriate background for research or study in Europe or China (including the mainland, Hong Kong, Macao, and/or Taiwan). They must be of good character and intend to conduct research or study requiring independent international travel (i.e., unassociated with an organized study abroad group). Preference is given to U.S. citizens, pursuing a career in diplomatic or other governmental international service.The Presidential Fellowship
The Presidential Scholarship is a year-long fellowship given by the Graduate School that recognizes the outstanding scholarly accomplishments and potential of graduate students entering the final phase of their dissertation research or terminal degree project. Students do not apply directly to the Graduate School, but are nominated by Graduate Studies Committee Chairpersons. There is a fall and spring competition. For more information, visit: http://www.gradsch.ohio-state.edu/content.aspx?content=48&itemid=2.The Preparing Future Faculty Program
The Preparing Future Faculty (PFF) program offers Ohio State graduate students the opportunity to experience first-hand the unique challenges and rewards of an academic career at a smaller college or university through a partner relationship with a mentor-faculty member at one of Ohio's leading liberal arts colleges and state universities.Ohio State's PFF program has been approved as a Graduate School course, and graduate students' participation in the program is noted on their Ohio State transcripts. The premiere feature of the PFF experience is a mentorship with an accomplished faculty member at a PFF partner institution. After being "matched" with a mentor from a corresponding field of study, graduate students make between two and four visits to their mentor's school. The specific activities pursued within the mentorship are jointly selected by the graduate student and their faculty mentor. For more information, visit: http://www.gradsch.ohio-state.edu/content.aspx?content=62.
