The Office of Graduate Studies is honored to announce the submission of a GVSU thesis to the Midwest Association of Graduate Schools Thesis Competition. For this year’s submission, 5 nominations from several graduate programs were picked at GVSU. Only one school will submit one thesis in the competition. This is the third year that GVSU has participated in the MAGS Thesis Competition, and this year’s nomination is Whitney Nelson. Nelson graduated from GVSU in December 2011 with a Master of Science in Biology and is currently working at the University of Arkansas on her PhD.