"Once a Fellow, Always a Fellow"
Benefits for Alumni and Financial Information
Please note: To be eligible for each of these benefits you must submit your annual MMUF online survey at http://www.MMUF.org/survey
As an alumnus/alumna of the Washington University Mellon Fellowship Program, you may be eligible to have significant portions of your undergraduate and graduate school debt repaid by the Mellon Foundation.
You are entitled to have up to $10,000 of your undergraduate debt through the federal Perkins, federal Stafford or Washington University loan programs repaid, provided you pursue a doctoral program in any one of the Mellon-designated fields of study*. If you have incurred less than $10,000 of undergraduate debt, the balance of loan repayment funds may be used to repay graduate student loans.
*The eligible fields specified by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation are: Anthropology, Area Studies, Art History, Classics, Computer Science, Demography, Earth Science, Ecology, English, Ethnomusicology, Foreign Languages, Geology, History, Literature, Mathematics, Musicology, Philosophy, Physics, Political Theory, Religion, and Sociology.
The Social Science Research Council administers the Predoctoral Grant Program. All graduate students in good standing are eligible to receive a modest annual grant to support the cost of travel, books, computers, and research. The grant is paid in annual increment for a total of $5,000 over a five-year period. Please visit their website at http://www.ssrc.org or email info@ssrc.org for more details.
The Social Science Research Council administers the Graduate Student Summer Conference. All graduate students in doctorate programs, who are in good standing, are eligible to attend up to their 6th year. The SSRC supports travel, room and board. To qualify you must register with the SSRC by March 15th. Please visit their website at http://www.ssrc.org or email info@ssrc.org for more details.
The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation administers the Travel and Research grant program for advanced graduate students. All graduate students who have completed all course work toward the degree, selected an approved dissertation topic, and passed all comprehensive examinations may apply. This is a competitive program; ten grants of up to $5,000 are awarded each year. Please contact the Assistant Director at mmuftr@woodrow.org for details.
The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation also administers the Dissertation Completion grant program. All graduate students who have completed their doctoral requirements, dissertation research and fieldwork, and who are prepared to begin writing are eligible to apply. This is a competitive program, in which five grants of up to $20,000 are awarded each year. Please contact the Assistant Director at mmuftr@woodrow.org for details.
Please keep in mind that any stipend or fellowship monies you have received or will receive from the Foundation are taxable.
For more information about your options for debt repayment, please email us at mellon@artsci.wustl.edu.
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