The Barry Goldwater Scholarship Foundation is expanding!
Historically offering undergraduate tuition funding to awarded sophomores and juniors with research interests in the sciences, engineering, and mathematics, the newly announced Barry Goldwater Summer Research Internship Program will offer freshmen and sophomores 10-week summer placements in research labs across the United States.
Receiving a prestigious graduate fellowship is a distinction few students achieve. For Ohio State alumnus Anitvir Singh Taunque, being selected as a Samvid Scholar represents an opportunity to join a national community of future leaders dedicated to addressing some of society’s most pressing challenges.
The Ohio State University’s Undergraduate Fellowship Office is proud to announce that Arón Olegnowicz-Cruz (BA ’24, BS ’24) has been selected for the Schwarzman Scholars Class of 2026–27, becoming Ohio State’s second Schwarzman Scholar.
Cordelia Van der Veer was one of 20 rising seniors across the country to be awarded the Beinecke Scholarship. The Beinecke Scholarship program seeks to encourage and enable highly motivated students to pursue opportunities available to them and to be courageous in the selection of their graduate course of study. To meet its mission, the scholarship provides up to $35,000 toward graduate funding for students intending to pursue a terminal degree in the arts, humanities, and social sciences.
Harrison Blake, a rising senior, has been awarded the Astronaut Scholarship, which recognizes outstanding students in STEM pursuing research careers.
Blake was awarded the scholarship for his initiative, creativity, and leadership in physics and astronomy.
This year, the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation awarded 68 scholarships to students at 46 universities.
Two Ohio State students, rising juniors and Eminence Fellows Catherine Adams and Abi Dumm, have been selected to participate in Fulbright’s nationally competitive UK Summer Institutes. The three to four week summer institutes allow participants who have no or very little travel experience outside North American, to explore the culture, heritage, and history of the UK while experiencing higher education at a UK university.
Two Ohio State students have been recognized by the Udall Foundation. Udall recognizes outstanding students involved in leadership, service, and careers related to the environment, and awards $7,000 toward undergraduate expenses to 55 undergraduates nationally.