Award Opportunities
The Graduate School office sponsors awards, fellowships, scholarships and assistantships for deserving students.
Many public and private organizations also provide fellowships and scholarships for graduate students. Please visit the Office of Nationally Competitive Awards for assistance in finding and applying to competitive awards.
Recent Graduate Student Award Winners
2018 Albert C. Yates Fellowship Program
| Fellows | College | Program | Degree |
| Omari Abdul-Alim | College-Conservatory of Music |
Violin | MM |
| Alicia Bedolla | Medicine |
Neuroscience/Medical Science Scholars Interdisciplinary | PhD |
| Blake Bell | Business | Applied Economics | MS |
| Evan Brooks | Medicine |
Molecular & Developmental Biology | PhD |
| Leland Brown | Education, Criminal Justice, and Health Services | Sport Administration | MS |
| Diamond Crowder | Arts & Sciences |
History | PhD |
| Audrey Crowther | Medicine |
Immunology | PhD |
| Brittany Duncan | Medicine | Molecular, Cellular & Biochemical Pharmacology | PhD |
| Jenny Ham | Arts & Sciences | Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies | MA |
| Austin Hattori | Arts & Sciences |
Classics | MA |
| Kelly Hollins | Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning | Landscape Architecture | MLA |
| Melvin-Eddy Ikwubuo | Engineering and Applied Science | Aerospace Engineering | PhD |
| Riley Jessen | Business | Applied Economics | MS |
| Yalie Kamara | Arts & Sciences |
English & Comparative Literature | PhD |
| Marco Leon | Allied Health Sciences | Communication Sciences and Disorders | MA |
| Lisa Low | Arts & Sciences |
English & Comparative Literature | PhD |
| Clair Nguyen | College-Conservatory of Music |
Theory | PhD |
| Mark Ornelas | Arts & Sciences |
Philosophy | PhD |
| Alyssa Sterling | Pharmacy | Pharmaceutical Sciences/Biopharmaceutics | PhD |
| Nury Stevens | Arts & Sciences |
Romance Languages & Literatures | PhD |
| Anthony Stone | Arts & Sciences |
Sociology | PhD |
| Yi Ting "Jenny" Sung | Arts & Sciences |
Biological Sciences | PhD |
| Kierra Toney | Arts & Sciences |
Sociology | PhD |
| Natalie Villacorta | Arts & Sciences |
English & Comparative Literature | PhD |
| Christine Wong | Arts & Sciences |
Classics | PhD |
2018 Provost Graduate Fellowship
- Maralyn Doering, Department of Sociology, College of Arts and Sciences
- Afsheen Farhadi, Department of English & Comparative Literature, College of Arts and Sciences
- Meagan Scott, School Psychology Graduate Program, College of Education, Criminal Justice, and Human Services
2018 Presidential Medal of Graduate Student Excellence
The PMGSE is a prestigious honor awarded by the university president to exceptional graduate students who best exemplify scholarship, leadership, character, service and the ideals of the University of Cincinnati.
- Batsheva Guy, Educational Studies, PhD
- Ryan Makinson, Neuroscience, PhD
2018 Graduate School Dean's Fellowship
- Christopher Motz, Department of Classics, College of Arts and Science
- Harshad Puranik, Department of Management, Carl H. Lindner College of Business
- Mohammadreza Radmanesh, Department of Mechanical & Materials Engineering, College of Engineering and Applied Science
- Crystal Whetstone, Department of Political Science, College of Arts and Sciences
- Alex Yarawsky, Molecular Genetics, Biochemistry, and Microbiology Graduate Program, College of Medicine
2018 Excellence in Teaching Award
- Alex Jones, Computer Science & Engineering (CEAS), PhD student
- Joe Deye, Communication (A&S), MA student
College Awardees
- A&S: Abigail Richard, Mathematical Sciences, PhD
- CAHS: Chelsea Benson Blankenship, Communication Sciences and Disorders, PhD
- CCM: Michael Hayden, Music Theory, MM
- CCM: Joseph Rivers, Music Education, MM
- CECH: Laura Kelley, Educational Studies, PhD
- DAAP: Jongwoong Kim, Regional Development Planning, PhD
- LCOB: Harshad Puranik, Business Administration, PhD