Council of Graduate Students

at The Ohio State University

Ray Travel Award Winners

2022 - 2023 Academic Year

Funding Period #1 (Conference occurring July - September)

Ryan Wagner – School of Environment and Natural Resources

Daniel Ma – Civil, Environmental and Geodetic Engineering

Bhumi Patel – Department of Dance

Faiz Nisar Khan – Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Ellia La – Food Science & Technology

Brittany Fischer – Veterinary Preventive Medicine

Keira Hambrick – English

Valentina Pita Grisanti – Nutrition

Manisha Nagpal – Educational Psychology

Funding Period #2 (Conference occurring October - December)

Megan Co – Biomedical Engineering

Alissa Geisse – Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology

Chelsea Gilbert – Educational Studies

Cemantha Lane – Biomedical Engineering

Siyu Liu – Public Policy and Management

Sheila Martin – Teaching and Learning

Larissa Mulder – Ethnomusicology

Morgan Oates – Speech and Hearing Science

Kenneth Poland – Public Policy and Management

Lenin Rodriguez Betancourth – Horticulture and Crop Science

Kyle Sozanski – Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology

Nina Tang – Biomedical Engineering

Sydney Townsend – Biomedical Sciences

Funding Period #3 (Conference occurring Janaury - March)

Funding Period #4 (conferences occuring April - June)

2021 - 2022 Academic Year

Funding Period #1 (Conference occurring July - September)

Lokaditya Ryali – Mechanical Engineering

Funding Period #2 (Conference occurring October - December)

Danielle Boyle – The Department of Neuroscience

Tamara McCarty – Department of Dance

Alexandra Tuggle – Anthropology

Lena Stevens – College of Public Health

Elizabeth Jergens – Chemical Engineering

Jessica Rivera – HESA

Megan Espana – College of Social Work

Simone Downie – Department of Design

Sarah Scott – Entomology

Dongjoon Kim – Chemical Engineering

Astrid Zuckerman – Psychology

Kendall King – Entomology

Funding Period #3 (Conference occurring Janaury - March)

Natalia Sletova – Second Language Acqiusition

Emily Bumpus – Educational Studies

Wonseok Lee – Ethnomusicology

Wei William Zhou – Chinese Linguistics

Bethany Martens – Multilingual Language Education

Yifan Li – History of Art

Drew Arbogast – Anthropology

Pinak Mohapatra – Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Bethany Frick – Speech and Hearing Science

Ashby Goldstein – School of Music

Quianna Simpson – Department of Dance

Dhwani Parikh – Special Education

Kevin Fisher – School of Environment and Natural Resources

Carrie Anne Thomas – Teaching & Learning

Sandeep Joy – Department of Physics

Charu Jain – Department of Chemistry

Yu Ling Chen – Special Education

Emily Rabung – Environment and Natural Resources

Jessica Cristina Lemos Motta – Animal Sciences

Funding Period #4 (conferences occuring April - June)

Robert Williams – History

Lindsey Rowe – Language, Education, and Society

Nate Stewart – Educational Studies

Nicholas Deems – Neuroscience

Jennifer Janovick – Food Science and Technology

Renee Bowling – HESA

Fenfen Tang – Food Science and Technology

Elana Schettini – Department of Psychology

Semanti Mukhopadhyay – Materials Science and Engineering

Annelise Madison – Department of Psychology

Christopher Holt – Department of Speech and Hearing Science

Julia Mazzarella – School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences

Anthony Palmiscno – Department of Spanish & Portuguese

Eric McChesney – Educational Studies

Kameron Rinehart – Agricultural Communication, Education, and Leaders

Jacob Kopcienski – Musicology

Rebecca Cepeda – Higher Education and Student Affairs

Coralia Balasca – Sociology

Chiebuka Egwuonwu – Engineering Education

Colby Gregg – Agricultural Education, Communication, and Leaders

Vyom Thakker – Chemical Engineering

Ho-Chieh Lin – STEM Education

2020 - 2021 Academic Year

Funding Period #1 (Conference occurring July - September)

Funding Period #2 (Conference occurring October - December)

Selasi Attipoe – College of Public Health

Zenan Zhou – Fisher College of Business

Dylan Ricke – College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Science

Sarah Haines – College of Engineering

Funding Period #3 (Conference occurring Janaury - March)

Kimberley Scott – College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences

Eunice Uhm – College of Arts & Sciences

Xinyue Lu – College of Education and Human Ecology

Revati Dewal – College of Arts & Sciences

Funding Period #4 (conferences occuring April - June)

Jingyi Zhu – Foreign, Second, Multilingual Language Education

Lisa Combs – Higher Education and Student Affairs

Chelsea Gilbert – Educational Studies: Higher Education & Student Affairs

2019 - 2020 Academic Year

Funding Period #1 (Conference occurring July - September)

Nithya Sivashankar- Education & Human Ecology

Hector Iglesias Pascaul- Arts & Sciences

Tyler MacDonald- Arts & Sciences

Tsung-Hsin Lee- Arts & Sciences

Melisa Diaz- Arts & Sciences

Stephanie Ray- Arts & Sciences

Nathan Nordstedt- Arts & Sciences

Aubrey Neumann- Arts & Sciences

Kaylee South- College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences

Funding Period #2 (Conference occurring October - December)

Gayle Garcia- Education & Human Ecology

Ehsan Estiri- Arts & Sciences

Caroline Koncz- Arts & Sciences

Sarah Light- Neuroscience

Jennifer Perkins- Arts & Sciences

Elizabeth Stone- Neuroscience

Kendra Dickinson- Arts & Sciences

Madison Sabatelli- Arts & Sciences

Emilio Mateo- Arts & Sciences

Laura Maguire- Engineering

Emily Hill- Medicine

Funding Period #3 (Conference occurring Janaury - March)

Davianna Green - Arts & Sciences (Dance)

Ying-Ting Chiu - Education and Human Ecology (Language, Education and Society)

Katerine Ramirez - Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences (Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics)

Nithya Sivashankar - Education and Human Ecology (Teaching and Learning)

Nicki Pukos - Medicine (Neuroscience)

Minseok Choi - Education and Human Ecology (Language, Education and Society)

Gina Gerardo - Arts & Sciences (Clinical Psychology)

Tamara Roose - Education and Human Ecology (Teaching and Learning)

Sarah Anderson - Health and Rehabilitation Sciences

Jackie Ridley - Education and Human Ecology (Foreign, Second and Multilingual Language Education)

Aviva Philipp-Muller - Arts & Sciences (Psychology)

Sharon Scott -Engineering (Environmental Engineering)

Funding Period #4 (conferences occuring April - June)

Angela Acosta- Spanish & Portuguese

Lian Arzbecker- Speech & Hearing Science

Brieanne Beaujolais- Social Work

Rebecca Czaja-  Environment & Natural Resources

Leanna DeJong- Environment & Natural Resources

Megan Espana- Social Work

Tania Espinales Correa- Spanish & Portuguese

Philip Gould- Environment & Natural Resources

Emma Lagan- Anthropology

Leah May- Human Nutrition

Tina Nguyen- Psychology

Somin Park- Teaching & Learning Administration

Prashant Serai- Computer Science & Engineering

Shuo (Selena) Wang- Psychology

Kathryn Williamson- Food Science & Technology

2018 - 2019 Academic Year

Funding Period #1 (Conference occurring July - September)

Brieanne Beaujolais - Social Work

Coleen Thompson - Evolution and Ecology

Thelma Velez - Environmental Social Science

Brianna Johnson - Dance 

Nguyen Tram - Biomedical Engineering

Kara Braunreiter - Molecular Genetics

Adrienne Oehlers - Theatre

Funding Period #2 (Conference occurring October - December)

Zeynep Aydogdu - Comparative Studies

Brittney Butler - Epidemiology

Riley DeBacker - Speach and Hearing Sciences

Mario DeGrandis - Chinese Literature

Laurene Glimois - French and Italian

Jess Holler - Comparative Studies

Emily Justus - Entomology

Jendall King - Entomology

Chase Moore - Educational Studies

Chris Riley - Entomology

Amanda Smith - Comparative + Veterinary Sciences

Tiffnay Steele - Higher Education

Katherine Turo - Entomology

Funding Period #3 (Conference occurring January - March)

Yesenia Alvarez Padilla- Social Work

Rachel Bican - Health and Rehabilitation Sciences

Shelby Coen - Counselor Education

Katherine D'Amico - Translational Plant Science

Mario De Grandis - Chinese Literature

Julie Faieta - Health and Rehabilitation Services

Healther Glon - Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology

Julia Mazzarella - Health and Rehabilitation Services

Chelsey Nieman - Environmental and Natural Resources

Eleanor Paynter - Comparative Studies

Alanna Radlo-Dzur - History of Art

Ilana Seager van Dyk - Clinical Psychology

Madison Bowling - Kinesiology

Brittney Keller-Hamilton - Epidemiology

Paula Lado - Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology

Katherine Lakstins - Biomedical Engineering

Michele Patak-Pietrafesa - Social Work

Christopher Pierce - Physics

Joanne Vakil - STEM Education

Funding Period #4 (Conference Occurring April - June)

Laura Allen - English

Ziv Bell - Clinical Psychology

Rachel Bican - Health and Rehabilitation Services

Kevin Blum - Biomedical Engineering

Emma Cobb - Comparative Studies

Chrisse Edmunds - Sociology

Bethany Frick - Speech and Hearing Sciences

Pooja Gangras - Molecular Genetics

Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology

Kara Hooser - Political Science

Eswar Kandaswamy - Periodontics

Mijoo Kim - Kinesiology

Nicole King - Teaching and Learning

Julia Mazzarella - Health and Rehabilitation Sciences

Samantha McCabe - Environmental Sciences Graduate Program

Lauren Muscott - Political Science

Samantha Powers - Nerosciences Graduate Program

Conor Rosenblatt - Environment and Natural Resources

Sarah Stork - Comparative STudies

Rodney Tollerson - Microbiology

Thelma Velez - Environmental Social Sciences

Ryan Vogel - Environment and Natural Resources