Student Initiatives

Minority Undergraduate Fellowships funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Encourage Advanced Studies

Now in its fourth year, the Mellon Minority Undergraduate Fellows program seeks to increase the number of minority students enrolled in Ph.D. programs in designated fields. Currently, nine Mellon Fellows are enrolled at Smith and an additional six graduated last year. Their special projects include a cross-cultural comparative education study of urban schools, a study of the role that the “conscious hip-hop” movement plays in urban black life, and the investigation of coral reef ecology through hydrological research. Mellon Fellows who have graduated are attending graduate schools like Brown, Princeton, and NYU or are working in their fields.