Director: Dr. Margarite Fernandez-Olmos
2231 Boylan Hall
(718) 951-4114

The Mellon Minority Fellowship is designed to attract minority undergraduates to scholarship in the humanities, anthropology, and selected physical sciences, and prepare them for careers in college or university teaching and research.

Examples of scholarly fields in the humanities are art history, history, classics, language, literature, religion, musicology, and philosophy. Appropriate fields of study in the physical sciences are mathematics, physics, geology, and ecology or earth sciences.

Mellon Fellows typically apply in the spring semester of their sophomore year. They spend their junior and senior year in the program. Some may begin in their sophomore year.

Mellon Fellows receive a tuition scholarship and a maximum of two summer research stipends of $3,000. The Mellon Foundation also helps students repay undergraduate loans while they pursue an approved graduate program toward a Ph.D.

There are five parts to the Program:

Entrance requirements
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