By Cole Hatcher
Ohio Wesleyan University has selected 19 first-year students as 2024-2025 Woltemade Economics and Business Fellows. The competitive, four-year fellowships are awarded each fall by OWU’s Woltemade Center for Economics, Business, and Entrepreneurship.
Delaware Countians are included among the recipients.
The fellows are selected based on their high potential for success at Ohio Wesleyan and their interest in business-related studies. OWU’s newest Woltemade Economics and Business (WEB) Fellows and their hometowns are:
- Logan Bills of Austin, Texas
- Dominic Brown of Marysville, Ohio
- Jacob D’Eramo of Dublin, Ohio
- Olivia England of Columbus, Indiana
- Zane Everly of Cardington, Ohio
- Nathan Foulkrod of Willoughby Hills, Ohio
- Luke Georgelakos of Potomac, Maryland
- Quinn Hart of Dublin, Ohio
- Jera Hoy of Radnor, Ohio
- Kristin Humbert of Kensington, Maryland
- Kayden Jacobs of Urbana, Ohio
- Hank Johnson of Barnesville, Ohio
- Nagomi Katano of Nagoya-Shi, Japan
- Jonah Lewis of Westerville, Ohio
- Simon Rivera of Delaware, Ohio
- Shane Slack of Lewis Center, Ohio
- Roxy Sorensen of Cincinnati, Ohio
- Kailey Sweet of Dublin, Ohio
- Taylor Thompson of Galena, Ohio
Being selected as a WEB Fellow ensures the first-year students are assigned an academic adviser from the Department of Economics and Business, receive sophomore or junior peer mentors as freshmen, and are paired with professional mentors as seniors.
The fellows also are eligible for a $250 academic scholarship during their second semester and are enrolled in a first-year seminar open only to them. The seminar is team-taught by the entire Economics and Business faculty, helping the students to quickly build relationships with their new professors.
In their second year of the program, the WEB Fellows take a fully paid, faculty-escorted study trip to a major U.S. city, such as New York, where they meet with distinguished Ohio Wesleyan alumni and other professionals working in the city in business or government.
To be considered for the fellowship program, students must have earned a high school grade point average of 3.25 or higher and indicate an interest in accounting, business administration (management or marketing), economics, finance, international business, management economics, or quantitative economics on their application for admission. They also must have a high school record that indicates the potential for high achievement at Ohio Wesleyan and complete a personal interview with OWU professors from the Department of Economics and Business.
The Woltemade Economics and Business Fellows program is supported by the McGinty Family Endowment, in recognition of Kevin J. McGinty, OWU Class of 1970, and his long-standing service on the Woltemade Center’s Alumni Advisory Board.
Learn more about The Woltemade Center, WEB Fellows program, and Department of Economics and Business at owu.edu/Woltemade and owu.edu/economics.
Photo: Ohio Wesleyan’s 2024-2025 Woltemade Economics and Business (WEB) Fellows include 19 first-year students. Front row from left: Nagomi Katano, Kailey Sweet, Taylor Thompson, Logan Bills, Roxy Sorensen, Kristin Humbert, Zane Everly, and Hank Johnson. Back row from left: Quinn Hart, Luke Georgelakos, Kayden Jacobs, Nathan Foulkrod, Shane Slack, Jera Hoy, and Jacob D’Eramo. Not pictured: Dominic Brown, Liv England, Jonah Lewis, and Simon Rivera. (Photo by Paul Vernon)
Source, Photo: OWU
