Academic Opportunity: Mellon-Mays Undergraduate Fellowship (for CC Sophomores)

This program provides research training, faculty mentorship and financial support for Columbia College minority students and other undergraduates with a demonstrated commitment to racial diversity who wish to pursue a Ph.D. and whose intellectual and social commitments embody those of the late Dr. Benjamin Mays. Accepted fellows may enter the program in their Junior year and receive a yearly stipend of $2,000. In addition, they will be eligible for summer research funding up to $3,000, and travel expense reimbursement up to $500. After entering a Ph.D. program in one of the designated fields, fellows are eligible for up to $10,000 in undergraduate tuition loan repayment. You do not need to be majoring in one of the designated fields to be eligible, but you should be planning to pursue a Ph.D. in one of them.

The designated fields are: Anthropology, Area Studies, Art History, Classics, Computer Science, Demography, Earth Science, Ecology, English, Ethnomusicology, Foreign Language, Geology, History, Literature, Mathematics, Musicology, Philosophy, Physics, Political Theory, Religion, and Sociology.

There will be an information session on Friday, February 29 at 2:00 p.m. in 402 Hamilton Hall.

For more information, please contact Hazel May, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs at: hm2135@columbia.edu. You can also visit: www.mmuf.org for more information about the program.

Applications are due by 3:00 p.m. on Friday, 28 March 2008. Application forms will be available at the information session and thereafter in 208 Hamilton Hall.