Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship
The Program
The Fellows
The Application
The Program
With funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Northwestern University has established the MMUF program for promising undergraduates considering graduate study toward a Ph.D. in selected fields who possess a demonstrated commitment to eradicating racial disparities. The program is named in honor ofDr. Benjamin E. Mays, mentor and unofficial senior advisor to Martin LutherKing, Jr.
The goal of the Northwestern Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship (MMUF) program is to engage gifted undergraduates in the process of research and other important facets of academic life, thereby encouraging their interest in academic careers.
Students will participate in summer research programs, identify research interests and work with faculty, staff, and MMUF participants and alumni on various projects. For many students, this research work becomes the basis for their senior thesis, conference presentations, and graduate school work.Students receive research support throughout their undergraduate career and those who pursue a Ph.D. in one of the designated fields will be eligible to have up to $10,000 of their undergraduate guaranteed student loans repaid by the Mellon Foundation.
MMUF supports students who are considering graduate study in the following fields:
Anthropology and Archaeology, Area/Cultural/Ethnic/Gender Studies, Art History, Classics, ComputerScience, Geography and Population Studies, Earth/Environmental/Geological Science and Ecology, English, Film, Cinema and Media Studies (theoretical focus), Musicology and Ethnomusicology, Foreign Languages and Literatures, History, Linguistics, Literature,Mathematics, Oceanographic/Marine/Atmospheric/PlanetaryScience, Performance Studies (theoretical focus), Philosophy andPolitical Theory, Physics and Astronomy, Religion and Theology, Sociology,Theater (non-performance focus), Interdisciplinary Studies: Interdisciplinary areas of study may be eligible if they have one or more Mellon field at their core.
