The Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship

The Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship program (MMUF) is committed to broadening the range of scholarly perspectives in the US academy, with focus on the humanities and the humanistic social sciences. Its name honors Dr. Benjamin E. Mays, the noted African American educator, statesman, minister, and former president of Morehouse College. Through a pipeline process that emphasizes mentoring, research support, programming, and student cohort building, MMUF identifies and supports students of great promise to help them become scholars and professionals of the highest distinction. 

California State University, Long Beach is proud to be a partner of the California State University Consortium of the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship program which includes:

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