Receiving a prestigious graduate fellowship is a distinction few students achieve. For Ohio State alumnus Anitvir Singh Taunque, being selected as a Samvid Scholar represents an opportunity to join a national community of future leaders dedicated to addressing some of society’s most pressing challenges.
Honors student and Stamps Eminence Scholar Allison Sachs remembers her first day at The Ohio State University as equal parts excitement and nerves. Coming from a high school graduating class of about 140, the scale of campus felt immense.
“I remember being very anxious but excited,” she says. “I had walked all of my classes the day before and still had my phone pulled out just in case I couldn’t find the buildings.”
In her first year at The Ohio State University, a search for local service opportunities led Nina Greenberg to a light-bulb moment.