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Mellon Minority Undergraduate Grant Awarded The Mellon Foundation has awarded Emory a $475,000 grant as part of its Mellon Minority Undergraduate Fellowship (MMUF) Program, Emory College Dean Steven Sanderson announced today. Established in 1989 with a select group of colleges and universities, the program seeks to boost the numbers of African-American, Hispanic-American and Native American students in doctoral programs. The long-term goal is to increase the diversity of faculties at institutions throughout the country in order to bring a wider range of experiences and perspectives to teaching and scholarly discussion. The MMUF complements an existing Mellon-funded initiative at Emory: the United Negro College Fund/Mellon Summer Institute. Sponsored by the Program in African-American Studies, the summer institute provides a point of entry into the MMUF program for rising juniors at UNCF institutions. The summer institute is designed for African-American students interested in graduate school and college-level teaching careers, a "boot camp for black intellectuals," according to institute director Rudolph Byrd, associate professor and director of the Program in African-American Studies. Byrd and Mark Sanders, associate professor in English and associate director of the Program in African-American Studies, will direct the new MMUF. Under the program, students typically are selected their sophomore year, and receive faculty mentoring, stipend support for summer research, and undergraduate loan repayment if they pursue doctoral study in Mellon-designated disciplines. A fourth element of support is modest compensation during the academic year for assignments related to the students' academic interests, with the understanding that such academic assignments will replace financial aid work assignments. The other MMUF institutions are Barnard College, Bowdoin College, Brooklyn College/CUNY, Brown, Bryn Mawr, California Institute of Technology, Carleton College, Columbia University, Cornell, Dartmouth, Duke, Harvard, Haverford College, Hunter College/CUNY, Macalester College, Oberlin College, Princeton, Queens College/CUNY, Rice, Smith College, Stanford, Swarthmore, University of Chicago, University of Pennsylvania, University of Southern California, Washington University, Wellesley College, Wesleyan University, Williams College and Yale. To learn more about the MMUF Program, go to www.mellon.org/armuf93.html.
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