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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Scholars
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Admission to the Mellon Scholars Program is competitive. Applications from prospective Mellon Scholars are solicited from first-year students at the beginning of the spring semester, and admission to the program is announced prior to fall registration. The Mellon Scholars Program formally begins with the two-semester Interdisciplinary Seminar taken in the sophomore year. Mellon Scholars who continue to the junior year of the program work with a faculty mentor to develop an intellectually coherent course of study and complete a “junior project,” a significant work of scholarship grounded in academic research that may serve as an example of the student’s capabilities in applications for awards, graduate programs, and other opportunities. Mellon Scholars who continue to the senior year of the program work with a faculty mentor to produce a more substantial work, a “senior thesis,” that will be presented at a conference organized by the Mellon Scholars Program near the end of the senior year at which prizes will be awarded. Throughout the program, Mellon Scholars are expected to seek ways to adopt new and emerging digital technologies for the development, dissemination, and preservation of their work. The Mellon Scholars Program also offers support for student-faculty
collaborative summer research projects, conference travel, and
other student-faculty development opportunities. For more information
about
those opportunities and the program, please contact the director. |
"The
Mellon Scholars Program is one more way in which a Hope College education
is distinct from what might be found at other colleges and universities.
The opportunity to work closely with a professor on a significant
scholarly project resulting in a cutting-edge product adds considerable
value to a student's college experience. Furthermore, the teaching
and learning techniques employed in the Mellon Scholars Program will
help students develop the skills and habits of learning so critical
for a lifetime of productive intellectual engagement. I wish I could
have participated in something like this when I was in college, and
I'm glad that Hope students have that chance today." ~R. Richard Ray, Provost |
The
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Scholars Program in the Arts and
Humanities promotes steady progress, in stages, toward a more profound
intellectual engagement with the disciplines, a greater degree of
responsibility
for one’s own learning, and an increasing level
of
autonomy in research and creative endeavors. It cultivates critical
thinkers who understand how to plan, develop, and undertake a significant
project
of research or creative production, and to carry
it through to completion. It includes a significant interdisciplinary
component, encouraging both students and faculty members to cross
the boundaries of traditional
academic disciplines; teaches students
how
to engage new technologies for scholarly and creative production
and
communication; stimulates intellectual collaboration with faculty
members and fellow students; and prepares students to create an
assertive, entrepreneurial culture of the liberal arts that responds
to the challenges and opportunities of the 21st century.