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 […]
An undergraduate student researcher at Michigan State University, Henry Pan, has been nominated for the Churchill Scholarship – one nationally competitive award that pays for graduate school in the United Kingdom. Pan is a senior majoring in chemical engineering in the College of Engineering. Established in 1959, the Winston Churchill Foundation’s Scholarship Program offers 14 American students […]
Michigan State University has two finalists for the Rhodes Scholarship – Sarah Kovan, an Honors College senior majoring in comparative cultures and politics in the James Madison College and human biology in the College of Natural Science; and Irene Li, an Honors College senior majoring in genetics and molecular genomics in the College of Natural […]
Three Michigan State University students 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 U.S. national security interests. MSU has produced 34 Boren award winners since 1991. This year, there were 170 awards nationwide from a […]
Andrew Joseph, a double-major junior at Michigan State University, has been accepted into the Presidential Fellows Program, becoming MSU’s 9th Presidential Fellow. The Presidential Fellows Program offers up to 75 top undergraduate and graduate students from leading colleges and universities across the country a year-long opportunity to study the U.S. Presidency, the public policymaking process, and our Chief […]
Zane Crawford, an Honors College senior majoring in electrical engineering, has earned a Computational Science Graduate Fellowship from the U.S. Department of Energy. The fellowship is administered by the Krell Institute and supports approximately 70 students who are pursuing doctoral degrees in fields that use high-performance computing to solve complex science and engineering problems. It was established […]
Nineteen National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellows from Michigan State University have been selected for 2015 – the largest class of fellows for MSU since the program began in 1952. An additional 19 were named honorable mentions for MSU. “We at the Graduate School are proud of all our fellowships recipients,” said Karen Klomparens, dean […]
Michigan State University junior Joshua Schnell has been awarded the nationally competitive Beinecke Scholarship, which pays for graduate studies in the arts, humanities and social sciences. Schnell is an Honors College junior majoring in anthropology in the College of Social Science and religious studies in the College of Arts and Letters. He will receive $4,000 immediately […]
Shelbie Shelder, an Honors College junior majoring in nutritional sciences in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, has earned one of 80 nationally competitive Udall scholarships. Shelder is specializing in epidemiology and global public health and has a 3.9 grade-point average. The Udall Foundation awards scholarships to college sophomores and juniors for leadership, public […]
Two Michigan State University undergraduate researchers studying STEM-related fields have been awarded the nationally competitive Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship. The MSU Goldwater Scholars are Rebecca Carlson, an Honors College sophomore majoring in chemical engineering in the College of Engineering and Chinese in the College of Arts and Letters, and Megan Kechner, an Honors College junior […]
