
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.

Ph.D. Student Receives National Award for Efforts to Improve LGBTQIA+ Health
Wilfredo Flores, Ph.D. candidate in writing, rhetoric, and American cultures at Michigan State University who graduated this spring, is being recognized for his dedication to delivering health and medical knowledge to LGBTQIA+ people.

MSU Graduate is Two-Time Gates Cambridge Scholar
Jasmine Jordan, a 2021 graduate from the College of Social Science, has been named a Gates Cambridge Scholar for the second time. In fall 2022, she will begin a doctorate in criminology at the University of Cambridge.

Graduate Student Wins Best Abstract at Portuguese and Hispanic Symposium
Andrea Hernando, a second-year graduate student in Spanish as a Second or Bilingual Language at Michigan State University, recently won the 2022 Best Abstract in Linguistics Award at the Graduate Portuguese and Hispanic Symposium at Georgetown University.

16 Spartans named National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellows
Sixteen exceptional undergraduate and graduate students, and alumni, from Michigan State University have been selected for the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP), along with thirteen honorable mentions.

American Identity and Social Contact with Minoritized Communities Research
What does it mean to be an American, how is this identity shaped and how does our identity inform our social relationships? These are all questions that graduate student Kelsey Osborne-Garth sought to answer during her time at Michigan State University through the MSU Summer Research Opportunities Program (SROP).
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