The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation has announced the winners of this year's Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Studies. Funded by the New York City-based Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the fellowships are designed to help exceptionally promising students prepare for careers in teaching and scholarship in the humanities.

Since the program's inception in 1982, more than 1,800 Mellon fellowships have been awarded to college graduates of outstanding promise with an interest in pursuing doctoral studies in the humanities. The fellowships provide financial support for the first year of study in a Ph.D. program at any U.S. or Canadian graduate school and a stipend of $17,500.

The 92 fellows named this year were chosen from an applicant field of 684 graduates, thirteen of whom received undergraduate degrees from Harvard. Columbia and Stanford were each represented by eight fellows, while Princeton, the University of California at Berkeley, and Yale each graduated five fellows and Brown, Cornell, and Dartmouth graduated three. Carleton, Macalester, and SUNY Buffalo each had two fellowship winners, as did the College of William and Mary, its first ever Mellon Fellowship winners. Other institutions with alumni winning for the first time include Davidson College, Hendrix College, Mt. Holyoke, New York University, and Sarah Lawrence.

For a complete list of the recipients, see: http://www.woodrow.org/mellon/Winners2001.htm