How do I apply?
Eligible individuals may be nominated by a faculty mentor/advisor. Please consider the award criteria and nomination process before determining the nominee for the program.
Does the advisor or the applicant complete and submit the PPSP nomination form?
How do you submit the letters of recommendation?
Do the letters of recommendation need to be from people at Ohio State?
Can the faculty mentors of the previous year’s cohort nominate a candidate this year?
Because current mentors in the PPSP serve on the review committee, they are not eligible to submit a nomination for the following cycle. They would be eligible to nominate a new candidate two years after because they would no longer be serving on the review panel. Their current fellow would complete the program before a new fellow would start their fellowship.
Can assistant professors nominate a candidate?
I am from a discipline with very short history of training postdocs and I do not have the required experience; can I nominate a candidate?
We are aware that in the arts, humanities and some social sciences, postdoctoral training is relatively new. For these disciplines, the nominating faculty would need to have graduated five or more doctoral/MFA students. They should provide a list of terminal degree mentees in the form provided. If they have mentored less than five individuals, faculty need to have received formal mentoring training from an entity in their field or related discipline and have a co-mentor who has the experience as outlined above. The training has to occur prior to the nomination deadline and proof of completion needs to be submitted with the nomination package.