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Graduate Candidates Receive 2025-26 Dissertation Fellowship Awards

May 20, 2025

Four College of Arts & Letters Ph.D. candidates have been awarded 2025-26 Graduate Dissertation Fellowships by the Center for Gender in Global Context at Michigan State University for their research projects that will include a significant focus on women, gender, or sexuality.These Women’s & Gender Studies Dissertation Fellowships are made possible through the generous funding provided by MSU’s Graduate School.Two…

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Internship Offers Experience in Diplomacy in Nation’s Capital and at United Nations

August 23, 2024

As an international student from the United Arab Emirates, Kaltham Altaher spent her last semester as a Michigan State University undergraduate not in East Lansing but rather at the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Embassy in Washington, D.C., where she did research for the embassy as a Political Affairs Intern. She even served as emcee for a conference that drew members…