April 3, 2025

DEALL Awards nearly $30,000 in student scholarships!

This week, the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures awarded nearly $30,000 in scholarship awards to 28 undergraduate and graduate students. These scholarships which come from a combination of donor-funded scholarship funds and departmental scholarship funds, recognize outstanding academic work in our department's courses and programs. Congratulations to all of our scholarship winners!

The following is a list of awards with the names of award recipients:

Shuh-Chai Lee Scholarship Award - This scholarship was established in 2009 to support faculty, students (both graduate and undergraduate) and programs within the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures.

Alexandra Jones
Angel Xinyao Chen

Tien-yi Li Award - The Tien-Yi Li Prize Fund was established in1985, by the Board of Trustees of The Ohio State University with a gift to the Office of University Development from Julia L. Li of Columbus, Ohio, in honor of Tien-Yi Li, Professor Emeritus in the Departments of East Asian Languages and Literatures and History. This scholarship is to support an outstanding graduate student in Chinese humanities at The Ohio State University.

Paul Ueda

David Y Chen Memorial Scholarship Award - This scholarship was established to support undergraduate and graduate scholarships, student support, faculty support and program support within East Asian Languages and Literatures

Jaehyuk Lee

Miyo Kawai Memorial Scholarship - This scholarship was established in 1970 to support the Japanese language studies by Miyo Kawai (Mrs. Kazuo Kawai), a member of the faculty of the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures from 1963 to 1970.

Ahmed Haj-Tamim
Ian Hood
Jayden Mitchell
Aaron Springs
Jacob Stange
Autumn Takatch
Adalyn Van Horn
Ryann Watiker

Atsushi Onoe Memorial Scholarship - This scholarship was established in 2006 to support academic activities of OSU students who wish to pursue the study of the Japanese language and culture, including but not limited to, scholarships, travel, and educational support materials.

Stefani Thomas
Joseph Santiago

Tanakadate Aikitu Prize - This scholarship was established in 1999 to be awarded to the most outstanding graduate students in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures of the Ohio State University in the field of Japanese humanities.

Yuki Hattori
Matthew Steinhauer
Risa Kageyama
Yuika Inami

This Nissen Chemitec America Scholarship - This award was created based on Nissen Chemitec Corporation’s (Niihama, Ehime-ken, Japan) contribution to our department. It is given to 1-2 students annually who plans to study in Japan.

Saori Wakita
Finn Wojnar
Luciano Canestrato

Chris Lee Korean Performance Award - the Chris Lee Korean Performance Research Fund was established April 4, 2014, to support the Korean Language Program, with an emphasis on performance studies including outreach, teaching, research, and programming.

Bre Trombley-Espinosa
Rabika Lohar
Alexa Pyun

Korean Studies Fund - This scholarship was established in 1995 to support study in Korean, faculty research in Korean studies or a lecture by a Korean studies distinguished scholar.

Carina Geissler
Colin Bang
Evelyn Uhlir