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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship (MMUF) will be hosting its first Open House of the year on November
2, 2023 during the Free Hour (12.15-1.30pm) at Honors Hall, Room 17.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">We would appreciate if you could circulate the flyer and invitation letter for the event among the students
in your class as well as among outstanding students with great academic potential that you think could be interested in pursuing a career in academia.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The Mellon Mays Program supports outstanding undergraduate students from underrepresented backgrounds
to apply for PhD Programs in the Humanities and the Social Sciences or students that show intent to pursue graduate work addressing issues of race, ethnicity, or gender.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Applicants for the 2024-26 Class must be sophomores or lower juniors and have a GPA of 3.3 or above.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The program creates a perfect space for the academic growth of undergraduate students by providing fellows
with both academic and financial support, including:</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">- A 2-year Living Stipend</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">- Summer Funding</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">- A Mentoring Program</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">- Writing Workshops on Research Methodology and Graduate School Applications</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The students can find more information about the program at our website: <a href="https://www.qc.cuny.edu/academics/mmuf/" id="OWAf32de711-2824-fb0e-f175-1a9adf18f56a" class="OWAAutoLink" style="margin: 0px;">https://www.qc.cuny.edu/academics/mmuf/</a></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">If you would like to nominate informally any student to the program, feel free to do so at: <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfHcZVGCaPZ4s8GEZciIq78p7_HSdFuF1RIC8ALRsuIbk0ebg/viewform?usp=sf_link" id="OWAdc7b1913-8205-2617-0423-6a9db9490382" class="OWAAutoLink" style="margin: 0px;">https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfHcZVGCaPZ4s8GEZciIq78p7_HSdFuF1RIC8ALRsuIbk0ebg/viewform?usp=sf_link</a></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Thank you so much for your support.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">All best,</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Brais Outes-León</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Brais Outes-Leon, PhD (he/him/his)</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Assistant Professor of Latin American Literature</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Director of the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Queens College, CUNY Queens Hall, Room 105E</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">65-30 Kissena Blvd Flushing, New York 11367 ----------</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Phone# 203 300 3798 brais.outesleon@qc.cuny.edu <a href="https://qc-cuny.academia.edu/BraisOutesLeon" id="OWA041f03ae-c10c-b390-5078-1da5be7025a4" class="OWAAutoLink" style="margin: 0px;">https://qc-cuny.academia.edu/BraisOutesLeon</a></span></p>
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