Undergraduate Benefits

 

Fellows who meet all programmatic requirements of the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship (MMUF), can expect to receive all of the following benefits:

  • Two credit-bearing courses, one in the fall semester of the junior year and a second one in the spring semester of the senior year
  • A stipend for research expenses and living expenses in the rising-junior and rising-senior summers and on-campus housing and meals at Princeton covered during the Postgraduate Pathways Summer Institute (PPSI) for participating rising juniors
  • A stipend for research and living expenses during the winter intersession period of your junior and senior years
  • Additional access to funds through the Scholar Development Fund each year for research supplies or travel, conference travel, or travel to visit MMUF-eligible PhD programs
  • Funds to cover the costs of application fees for MMUF-eligible PhD programs in the senior year
  • Collaborative mentorship with a faculty member and with the MMUF Coordinators
  • Networking in the profession through the Princeton MMUF community and the annual MMUF Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference
  • Support in identifying and applying for fellowships to help fund MMUF-eligible graduate study
  • Access to postgraduate and postdoctoral benefits – including, but not limited to, graduate student conferences, research funds, a proposal writing and dissertation development workshop, dissertation completion fellowships, a dissertation writing retreat, a preparing for the professoriate seminar, and an early-career faculty leave fellowship - provided solely to MMUF alumni through the American Council of Learned Societies’ Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowships program and the Institute for Citizens and Scholars’ Mellon Foundation Fellowships
  • Repayment of up to $10,000 of undergraduate educational loans, or the equivalent of PhD educational loans, upon completion of an MMUF-eligible PhD program in the humanities or humanistic social sciences
  • A multi-year cohort community of Fellows committed to shared values and aims for the future