ABOUT
The Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship (MMUF) is committed to broadening the range of scholarly perspectives in the US academy, with a focus on the humanities and the humanistic social sciences. Its name honors Dr. Benjamin E. Mays, the noted African American educator, statesman, minister, former president of Morehouse College, and mentor to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The fellowship supports undergraduate students interested in pursuing a PhD, beginning at the end of their sophomore year.
Rice MMUF is part of a larger national program founded in 1988 by the Mellon Foundation. To date, the program has helped produce more than 1,200 PhDs. The university is extraordinarily proud of the more than thirty scholars in that number who began their journeys right here at Rice.
BENEFITS:
- Mentoring relationship with Rice faculty
- Supportive cohort of MMUF@ Rice peer scholars
- Opportunities to present research in progress at annual Rice university symposium as well as at a regional conference of MMUF programs
- Academic stipend of $4,000 per year
- Research stipend of $4,500 per summer
- Research support & travel of $800 per year
- GRE preparation assistance of $1,000
- Grad school app. fee assistance of $300
- Partial student loan repayment available to fellows who enroll in a PhD program in a Mellon Mays eligible field within three years of graduation from Rice
For more information, contact Ceola Curley (MMUF Program Manager at Rice) at ceola@rice.edu.
APPLICATIONS
If you would like to be notified of when applications open up again for the MMUF program at Rice, please fill out our interest form here. (Please note you must have a Rice ID in order to access the form)
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