The Excellence in Undergraduate Research Mentoring Award honors individuals who have demonstrated success in mentoring undergraduates in their research and/or creative inquiry endeavors, as nominated by the students they have impacted with their exceptional mentoring.
This award is open to Ohio State faculty, lecturers, post-docs and graduate students who serve as undergraduate research mentors.
Nomination Process
Ohio State undergraduates, enrolled on any campus, may nominate an Ohio State faculty, post-doctoral associate, or graduate student for the Excellence in Undergraduate Research Mentoring Award.
Nomination materials include the following:
- Student's background and contact information
- Research mentor's background and contact information
- Statement of nomination. The statement of nomination must be between 300–500 words. When crafting your statement of nomination, please tell us how your research mentor has: (1) supported and inspired you to grow intellectually as a researcher, (2) encouraged and enabled you to reach your future goals and (3) supported and encouraged you on a personal level.
The 2022–2023 winners were announced on March 9. We congratulate Drs. Robin Bagley, Roman Covarrubias, and Hannah Shafaat!
EURMA Recipients
2022-2023 Awardees
- Robin Bagley (Evolution, Ecology, & Organismal Biology; Lima)
- Roman Covarrubias (Internal Medicine)
- Hannah Shafaat (Chemistry and Biochemistry)
2020-2021 Awardees
- Laurence Coutellier (Psychology and Neuroscience)
- Riley DeBacker (Speech & Hearing Science)
- Kevin Evans (Health & Rehabilitation Sciences)
- Christine Fortney (Nursing)
- Angela Harden (Health & Rehabilitation Sciences)
- Irene Hatsu (Human Sciences)
- Natalie Hull (Civil, Environmental, & Geodetic Engineering)
- Tao Jiang (Psychology)
- Brian Joseph (Linguistics)
- Jessica Krok-Schoen (Health & Rehabilitation Sciences)
- Stephanie Moulton (Public Affairs)
- Steve Oghumu (Pathology)
- Leah Oliemuller (Chemistry and Biochemistry)
- Kristen Roberts (Health & Rehabilitation Sciences)
- Sarah Schoppe-Sullivan (Psychology)
- Katie Vinopal (Public Affairs)
- Nicolas Wein (Pediatrics)
- Michelle Wibbelsman (Spanish & Portuguese)
- Valarie Williams (Dance)
2019-2020 Awardees
- Zoe Almeida (Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology)
- Dawn Anderson-Butcher (Social Work)
- Taylor Ballinger (Psychology)
- Matthew Birkhold (German)
- Rebeka Campos-Astorkiza (Spanish and Portuguese)
- Sergei Chmutov (Mathematics)
- Jiyeon Denninger (Psychology)
- Mark Drew (Microbial Infections & Immunity)
- Rachel Gabor (SENR Hydrology)
- Scott Graves (Educational Studies)
- Kristyn Gumpper (Internal Medicine)
- Richard Hickey (Chemical and Biomedical Engineering)
- Sharvari Karandikar (Social Work)
- Krista Kecskemety (Engineering Education)
- Yeoeun Kim (Educational Studies)
- Jane Klinger (Psychology)
- Melanie Krook (Center for Clinical and Translational Science)
- Andrew May (Civil, Environmental, and Geodetic Engineering)
- Megan Meuti (Entomology)
- Ryan Norris (Evolution, Ecology, and Orgranismal Biology)
- Hollie Nyseth Brehm (Sociology)
- Shane O'Neil (Neuroscience)
- Bill Peterman (School of Environment and Natural Resources)
- Valentina Pita-Grisanti (Nutrition)
- Donald Terndrup (Astronomy)
- Rolando Valdes Aguilar (Phyics)
- Ericka Velez-Bonet (Internal Medicine)
- Yael Vodovotz (Food Science and Technology)
- Leah Weston (Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology)
- Jessica Winter (Chemical and Biomedical Engineering)
- Jian-Qiu Wu (Molecular Genetics)
2018-2019 Awardees
- Abigail Buffington (Anthropology)
- Kimberly Carter (Chemistry)
- Kristi Cheramie (Landscapre Architecture)
- Zobeida Cruz-Monserrate (Internal Medicine)
- James Fuchs (Medicinal Chemsitry)
- Genie Giaimo (English)
- Erin Gloag (Microbiology)
- Mandar Kathe (Chemical Engineering)
- Chanhee Lee (OARDC Animal Sciences)
- Brett Loman (Microbial Pathogenesis)
- Claire Monroy (Otolaryngology)
- Nicole Sintov (Environment and Natural Resources)
- Noah Weisleder (Physiology and Cell Biology)
- Ryan Winston (Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering)
- Kristina Witcher (Neuroscience)
- Andre Palmer (Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering)
- Edward Taketa (Dance)
- Jason Coronel (Communication)
2017-2018 Awardees
- Christopher Coss (Pharmacy)
- Peter Mansoor (History)
- Nikole Patson (Psychology, Marion Campus)
- Tasleem Padamsee (Public Health)