From the Desk of Thomas Magliery:
Please join me in congratulating Austin Raper for receiving a Presidential Fellowship in the Spring 2016 competition. The Presidential Fellowship, the highest award given by the Graduate School for outstanding scholarship, supports the fellow in the final year of dissertation work. Only 24 of OSU’s over 10,000 graduate students are recognized in each biannual competition.
Austin was a summa cum laude graduate of the University of Mount Union in Biochemistry, and he started at Ohio State in 2013. Austin joined the lab of Zucai Suo in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry. He studies mechanisms of DNA damage tolerance and repair while pioneering new applications of single molecule techniques.
Congratulations, Austin!