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Telephone: 609-452-7007, Ext. 149
The Mellon Fellowships are open to
college seniors and recent graduates who have not yet begun graduate school,
and who show outstanding promise for career as teachers and scholars in
the humanities at the collegiate level. The program particularly hopes
to attract minority candidates of notable ability. Eighty entry-level,
one-year portable merit Fellowships will be awarded in 1998.
Each Fellow is granted graduate school
tuition and fees and a substantial stipend ($14,000 in 1998-9). Students should
note that these fellowships are for the first year of graduate study only;
however, graduate schools typically continue support for Mellon Fellows who
do well in this first year.
The Fellowships are available to students
who are citizens or permanent residents of the United States, and recipients
may not accept supplementary institutional awards or hold teaching assistantships
during the nine-month academic year in which the fellowship is held.
The program in administered by the Woodrow
Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. A series of regional and national panels
make selections based on the candidates' intellectual distinction and breadth
of interest. Applicants are required to submit the results of the Graduate
Record Examinations, General Test, and should take the test by December 1.
DEADLINE: November 12 for requests
and December 1 for completed materials.
ADDRESS: The Woodrow Wilson National
Fellowship Foundation, Andrew W. Mellon Fellowships in Humanistic Study, P.O.
Box 5329, Princeton, NJ 08543
