Two MSU graduate students named finalists for Knauss Fellowship

MSU graduate students Janet Hsiao and Lisa Peterson have been selected as finalists for the 2018 Sea Grant John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship, given by the Michigan Sea Grant organization.

The fellowship places graduate students from around the nation with host organizations in the legislative executive branches of the federal government. Knauss fellows get up close and personal with the processes and offices that guide U.S. ocean, costal and Great Lakes resource use and policies.

Hsiao, currently pursuing her master’s in fisheries and wildlife, has worked with Dana Infante to study the interactions of landscape, coastal habitats and ecological communities and is no stranger to Washington, D.C, having interned there at the Trust for Public Land in 2014.

Peterson, pursuing her doctorate in fisheries in wildlife, has been working with Mike Jones to study yellow perch stocking in Lake Erie.

The Knauss finalists will gather in Washington, D.C., this November to see where they’ll be placed.

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