Holy Cross Student Earns Prestigious Mellon Fellowship

WORCESTER, Mass. – Holy Cross alumna Julia Madden was recently named one of the 95 winners of the 2002 Andrew W. Mellon Fellowships in Humanistic Studies by The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. The Mellon Fellowships are the only reliable national award for graduate studies in the humanities. Funding for the awards is provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Julia graduated from Holy Cross with a music major on May 24, 2002. She will study musicology at Cornell University.

Over the past 20 years nearly 2,000 Mellon Fellowships have been awarded to college graduates of outstanding promise to encourage doctoral studies in humanistic fields. These prestigious awards provide the Fellows financial support for their first year of study in a Ph.D. program at any U.S. or Canadian graduate school, including tuition and fees, as well as a stipend of $17,500. The Mellon Fellows in Humanistic Studies for the academic year 2002-2003 were selected from 753 applicants graduating from a wide variety of American campuses.

Holy Cross is the oldest Catholic college in New England. Founded in 1843 by the Society of Jesus (Jesuits), the College is a highly selective, four-year, undergraduate liberal arts institution and ranks among the nation's leading liberal arts colleges.