Six students from Michigan State University (MSU) have been nominated for three highly competitive graduate school scholarships: the Marshall Scholarship, the Mitchell Scholarship and the Rhodes Scholarship. All of the scholarships support U.S. citizens attending graduate school in the United Kingdom or Ireland. Among the nominees for the Marshall Scholarship is Joel Arnold, a recent […]
Ashley Archer, a Michigan State University Honors College sophomore majoring in fisheries and wildlife in Lyman Briggs College, has earned the nationally competitive Udall Scholarship. The Udall Foundation awards scholarships to college sophomores and juniors for leadership, public service, and commitment to issues related to American Indian nations or to the environment. Each year, the foundation […]
Landon Fortenberry, a sophomore majoring in international relations in James Madison College, and Allison Tumas, a senior majoring in Arabic in the College of Arts and Letters, have received a Boren Scholarship to study languages abroad. Boren Scholarships provide up to $20,000 to U.S. undergraduate students studying in areas of the world that are critical to […]
Fourteen National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellows (NSF) from Michigan State University have been selected for 2016 and an additional 20 received honorable mention. The NSF program is the country’s oldest graduate fellowship program that directly supports graduate students in various STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) fields. NSF Graduate Research Fellows benefit from a three-year annual […]
Michigan State University sophomore Hannah MacDonald has earned a competitive scholarship from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). MacDonald is a student in the Honors College and is majoring in environmental geosciences in the College of Natural Science. NOAA’s Hollings Scholarship provides financial support for one year of academic study and a full-time internship position at […]
Michigan State University’s Thomas Grubb has earned the nationally competitive Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship. Grubb, an Honors College junior majoring in mathematics, advanced in the College of Natural Science and economics in the College of Social Science, is MSU’s 43rd Goldwater Scholar since the scholarship program was established by Congress in 1986. He was selected from a […]
Michigan State University has nominated four promising undergraduate students for the nationally competitive Udall Scholarship. The Udall Foundation awards scholarships to college sophomores and juniors for leadership, public service, and commitment to issues related to American Indian nations or to the environment. Each year, the foundation awards up to $7,000 for educational expenses to 60 outstanding students […]
Four students involved in public service have been nominated by Michigan State University for the Harry S. Truman Scholarship. The Truman Scholarship Foundation recognizes college juniors with exceptional leadership potential who are committed to affecting change through public service by providing them with financial support for graduate study, leadership training, and fellowship with other students. MSU’s nominees […]
Four undergraduate researchers studying STEM-related fields have been nominated by Michigan State University for the nationally competitive Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship. The Goldwater Foundation seeks scholars committed to a career in science, mathematics, or engineering who display intellectual intensity and who have the potential for significant future contribution in their chosen field. MSU has produced 42 Goldwater […]
Mykala Ford has been nominated by Michigan State University for the Carnegie Junior Fellows Program after studying Arabic abroad in Morocco, Oman and Tunisia and completing two degrees at the university. Each year, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace offers 10-12 fellowships from a pool of nominees from nearly 400 participating colleges. Carnegie junior fellows work as research […]
