Fifteen graduate students in the College of Arts and Sciences have received an autumn 2018 Presidential Fellowship, the most prestigious award given by the Graduate School at Ohio State.

Awarded each semester to graduate students of outstanding scholarship, the Presidential Fellowship gives fellows one year of full-time financial support so they can complete their dissertations or terminal-degree projects unimpeded by other duties. Fellows are nominated by graduate studies committee chairs and selected through a university-wide competition led by a faculty committee. 

Autumn 2018 Arts and Sciences Presidential Fellows include:

Stacy Kim, Department of Astronomy

Annika Peter, advisor
Kim’s dissertation will place new constraints on the nature of dark matter, which makes up the overwhelming majority of matter in the universe but remains elusive to scientists. Her research lays the groundwork necessary to quicker identify dark matter in the large-scale datasets expected from impending cosmological surveys.