Ten Michigan State University students and alumni were offered Fulbright U.S. Student Program grants for the 2024-25 academic year. In total, nine Spartans accepted the awards offered and will be traveling to seven different countries to conduct research or teach English during the 2024-25 academic year.

Aspiring law student Amaya Aten is a major in James Madison’s Comparative Cultures and Politics, and the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities with a focus in Language and Culture, as well as part of the Arts Living-Learning Community. She uses her complimentary majors to study how language affects the way people interact, and how that applies to policy theory and how laws are written.

Microbiology, Genetics and Immunology graduate student Jasper Gomez was recently awarded a three-year Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (Diversity) for Individual Predoctoral Fellows (F31) which supports promising doctoral candidates who are conducting their dissertation research in a scientific health-related field.

In June 2024, the National Academy of Education and Spencer Research Foundation recognized two alums and one doctoral student from Michigan State University College of Education for their innovative education research.

Second year Ph.D. student Maxwell Harman has been accepted to the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program, or GRFP.

Taylor Elyse Mills, a sixth-year doctoral candidate in Philosophy at Michigan State University and graduate of MSU’s College of Law, sought to do something about this significant gap in our state’s legal education and is now being recognized for her work.

Kasun Gajasinghe, a doctoral student in the Michigan State University College of Education’s Curriculum Instruction and Teacher Education Ph.D. program has been awarded the Witness Institute Fellowship.

For the Board of Trustees undergraduate research presentation is Tanushree Thapar, a Senior Honors Neuroscience student at Michigan State University. Her involvement at Michigan State University spans leadership roles, including the presidency of the MSU Neuroscience Club and contributions to the university's Honors College through various committees and initiatives.

Presenting to the Board of Trustees is Jenna Walters, a 5th year PhD candidate in the Rufus Isaacs Lab, earning a dual degree in the Department of Entomology and the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior (EEB)

Fourth-year medical laboratory science student Katie McGraw has become the first undergraduate Fulbright awardee for the Biomedical Laboratory Diagnostics Program, or BLD.

Kaylin Casper is Michigan State University’s 14th Udall Scholar, receiving the scholarship for Tribal Policy. Casper is an Honors College junior double-majoring in Sociology through the College of Social Science and Humanities Pre-Law in the College of Arts & Letters.

Libby Ashby and Aaron Philip have earned the prestigious Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, becoming the university’s 54th and 55th Goldwater Scholars.