Our hearty congratulations to DEALL graduate student, Paul Ueda, who is a recipient of the very coveted and competitive, university-wide Presidential Fellowships in the 2024-2025 competition, administered by OSU’s Graduate School. The Presidential Fellowship will support Paul in 2025 in his dissertation research in Chinese linguistics dealing with “Taiwanese Orthographies and Social Identities.” Paul’s advisor is Professor Marjorie K.M. Chan (DEALL), and his dissertation committee members are Professor Emeritus Donald Winford (Linguistics) and Professor Kathryn Campbell-Kibler (Linguistics).

The Presidential Fellowships competition, held twice a year in the past, is now held annually in the fall. This year has 35 recipients from across the university. While 18 -- or roughly half -- of the recipients are from the College of Arts and Sciences, only three are from the Division of Arts and Humanities: Paul from DEALL, and one each from Dance Studies and History of Art. Except for one recipient from the Atmospheric Sciences Program, the rest of the recipients from our College are from either the Division of Social and Behavioral Sciences (4), or from the Division of Natural and Mathematical Sciences (10).

Paul Ueda is Professor Chan’s second advisee to receive a Presidential Fellowship, nominated by DEALL Graduate Studies Director, Professor Xiaobin Jian. Her earlier advisee, nominated by then DEALL Graduate Studies Director, Professor Meow Hui Goh, is Seth Wiener, currently Associate Professor of Second Language Acquisition and Chinese Studies at Carnegie Mellon University. He was awarded a Presidential Fellowship in the Spring 2014 competition.