Madison students nominated for prestigious graduate scholarships
October 4, 2022 - Beth Brauer
The following news release is repurposed from the Honors College.
Michigan State University has nominated seven undergraduate students and one alumnus for competitive national graduate school scholarships: the Marshall, Mitchell and Rhodes scholarships.
Four of the seven nominated for the Marshall Scholarship are students in the James Madison College. They are Zahra Ahmad, an Honors College senior majoring in Comparative Cultures and Politics; Elyse Baden, an Honors College senior majoring in Political Theory and Constitutional Democracy, and Social Relations and Policy in James Madison College, and Interdisciplinary Humanities in the College of Arts and Letters; Abigail Barnum, a senior majoring in Comparative Cultures and Politics, and Social Relations and Policy in James Madison College, and Arabic in the College of Arts and Letters; and Carly Sandstrom, an Honors College senior majoring in Comparative Cultures and Politics, and Social Relations and Policy.
Baden, Barnum and Sandstrom are nominees for the Mitchell Scholarship along with Macken Keefe, an Honors College senior majoring in Political Science and the joint Master of Public Policy degree in the College of Social Science.
The nominees for the U.S. Rhodes Scholarship include Ahmad, Baden and Barnum.
MSU has produced 19 Marshall Scholars, five Mitchell Scholars and 20 Rhodes Scholars.
The Marshall Scholarship provides support to approximately 50 of the most outstanding undergraduates in the country to study at any university in the United Kingdom.
The US-Ireland Alliance established the George J. Mitchell Scholarship Program, which allows up to 12 future American leaders to pursue a year of graduate study in Ireland and Northern Ireland.
The Rhodes Scholarship is the oldest and perhaps most prestigious international scholarship program, enabling outstanding young people from around the world to study at the University of Oxford. The U.S. Rhodes Scholarship awards 32 scholarships, and the Global Rhodes Scholarship awards two scholarships.
The National and International Fellowships and Scholarships (NIFS) Office, administered by the Honors College, helps interested undergraduate and graduate students pursue major national and international opportunities by providing information and direct support throughout the competitive application processes.