Student Research Highlights

Sottile Earns Churchill Scholarship
Samuel Sottile, an Honors College senior majoring in advanced mathematics in the College of Natural Science, has been named a Churchill Scholar. The 18th Churchill Scholar from Michigan State University, Sottile places MSU in the top 10 nationally and #1 in the Big Ten for Churchill Scholars.

Graphic Design Graduate a Winner at ArtPrize 2022
A mural created for this year’s ArtPrize competition by MSU College of Arts & Letters graduate Maddison Chaffer was chosen as one of the winners of the juried awards.

Issaka Receives AAUW International Doctoral Fellowship
A second-year doctoral student in the interdepartmental Information and Media Ph.D. program at Michigan State University has received a prestigious international doctoral fellowship from the AAUW.

Finch Awarded Prestigious Fellowship
Brittany Finch, a doctoral student in Second Language Studies at Michigan State University, recently was named the 2022 recipient of the Jeanne S. Chall Research Fellowship by the International Literacy Association.

MSU Announces Fulbright Student Awards for 2022-2023
Nine Michigan State University students and alumni have been awarded Fulbright U.S. Student Program grants for the 2022-2023 academic year and four additional candidates have been named as alternates.

Giving Non-Speaking Autistic Individuals a Voice
Mariam Sayed is passionate about using her skills to help underserved francophone populations, and her current research helps autistic individuals communicate.

Alumni Named National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellows
Michigan State University Spartans have been named among the scholars for the 2022 cohort of National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship Program.

Berg Receives Prestigious DOE Grant
Michigan State University graduate student Hannah Christine Berg is the recipient of a highly competitive Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science Graduate Student Research Program (SCGSR) grant.

MSU-led Effort Spawns Creation of New Migratory Freshwater Fish Database
A Michigan State University-led team of scientists has assembled the North American Freshwater Migratory Fish Database, which brings together life history information on 1,250 species to inform conservation practices.