Faculty Awards

2025 Mentorship Awards: 

March 3:  Sustained Student Mentorship Award. The Sustained Student Mentorship Award is an award given out to a faculty member who has demonstrated a record of quality mentorship of undergraduates in research. Faculty members who have won the award within the last five years are ineligible. We encourage you to self-nominate if you have been involved in undergraduate research. Applications can be submitted here. Please direct questions to Tina Schneider, schneider.290@osu.edu.

April 15:  Annual Student Mentorship Awards are given out annually to faculty who have mentored undergraduates who have participated in the Lima Undergraduate Research Forum. Applications can be submitted here. Please direct questions to Tina Schneider, schneider.290@osu.edu.

Awards Available for Students:

1. Student Research Scholarship Award - Monetary award for excellence in undergraduate research. The value of the award is $50 for each project presented in the forum.

2. Research funding - Monetary funding to cover research related expenses directly associated with the student project. Faculty should seek funding for their own research projects through the Ohio State Lima campus Research and Special Projects Committee.