"Constantly Asking Questions"- 2014 Cohort Blog!

A couple of weeks ago Vinita Chaudhry (2014 cohort) created an awesome blog following her project on activism efforts among South Asian American queer youth.  She is currently in Udaipur, India, with Northwestern's Global Engagement Studies Institute (GESI) Program. 

Please check out and subscribe to her blog here!

MMUF Newsletter

Hello everyone!
The Spring 2012 MMUF Newsletter is online!  Great things are happening in the Mellon program at Wash U, so please check it out to stay updated!

2014 Cohort Blogs!

In the next couple of weeks we'll be rolling out the 2014 cohort's personal blogs. Over the next two years they will be sharing with us the ups, downs, twists, and turns that they encounter as they progress with their projects.  The first blog we'll be sharing is Danielle Wu's. 

Danielle is a rising Junior from St. Charles, MO majoring in Art History and Archaeology with a minor in Art General Studies.  Her project explores what the varied representations of women in contemporary Chinese art reveal about the current roles and attitudes of Chinese women.

Please check out and follow her blog at daniellewu.com!

Mellon 2012-2014 Cohort Applications Due Friday 2/17/12

Applications for the Mellon Mays 2012-2014 Cohort are due this Friday February 17th at 5:00 PM in the College of Arts & Sciences office in Cupples II suite 104.

Best Wishes Applicants!

Mellon Application Help Session

Mellon Mays Fellowship applications are due Friday, February 17th, 2012!

In order to help you feel as confident as possible about your application, current fellows will be hosting a help session on Thursday, February 9th from 5:30-7pm in Ridgely 417. This will be like open office hours, as you can stop by whenever works for you. Current fellows will be present to go through your prompts with you and help answer any questions. Please email (mellon.wustl@gmail.com) if you plan on stopping by and when so we have a feel for how many people to expect.

SPECIAL NOTE: No matter where your writing is at next Thursday, we encourage you to stop by! Even if you have bullet points to go off of that is better than nothing. Our main goal is to help strengthen your prompt responses, not to judge or harshly critique you. Please let us know if you cannot make this time and we can try to work something else out.

Sophomore Recruitment for 2014 MMUF cohort

Interested in learning about MMUF? Please join us to hear about the program, meet the current fellows,  and receive instruction on how to apply.

Mellon Mays Information Session

Date: Monday, November 7, 2011

Time: 5:30 pm  – 6:30 pm

Place: Seigle Hall Room 303

Light refreshments will be served

Please RSVP to the info session by filling out the form found at the link below:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dEEtOWJNVDFzVnVmMFhoQm1fc0RsRVE6MQ

Chancellor's Fellows Come to Visit

In preparation for the Mellon Mays Regional Conference next week in Chicago, at which all current fellows will be presenting a 10 minute presentation on their projects, we Mellons will be presenting to the older versions of ourselves, the Washington University Chancellor's Fellows. Wash. U.'s MMUF program began a relationship with the Chancellor's Fellow last year and will be continuing to build on the twice beneficial bond over the course of this year.

Find out more about the Chancellor's Fellows here:
http://cgfp.wustl.edu/home

Summer Opportunities for Undergrads

Check out this link to Berkley's Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship website.  It has information on summer opportunities that current Mellon fellows might want to take advantage of.


http://mellonmays.berkeley.edu/resources.html

Opportunities for Alumni

If you are
1) in the third year of your tenure track teaching appointment and interested in the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation's 2011 Career Enhancement Fellowships for Junior Faculty Program 
or 
2) ready to write your dissertation, or are pursuing your research and interested in 2011 MMUF Dissertation Grants and 2011 MMUF Travel/Research Grants 

please email mellon.wustl@gmail.com for more information.

Mellons Get Published!

We are excited to announce that Thomas Hernandez, Sophia Nunez, and Monica Smith recently had their articles accepted in the national MMUF Journal!  Congratulations!   


                                                    
        Monica Smith                                                     Thomas Hernandez                  




   
       Sophia Nunez

Keep an eye out for their contributions in the next article!