UCLA MMUF WRTP Application 2026 |
This is the application for the summer 2026 UCLA Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship (MMUF) Writing and Research Training Program.
The 2026 UCLA MMUF Writing and Research Training Program will run in an in-person format that will require all participating students to reside on the UCLA campus for the entirety of the 6-week program. The program is six weeks: Sunday, June 21, 2026 – Saturday, August 1, 2026. Housing and food for participants is provided.
Applications will be assessed in two rounds. Rising second-year Mellon fellows must submit their applications by March 13, 2026. Rising first-year Mellon fellows—those who have recently been accepted into MMUF, are on the waitlist, or have recently submitted their application at their home institution—must submit their applications by April 6, 2026. Admissions will be rolling throughout April and all students will be informed of their application status by the end of April 2026.
We will contact the coordinator of your home institution to confirm your standing in your MMUF program. It is your responsibility to follow up with your coordinator to make sure that they complete the coordinator's recommendation form.
Please note the following about the MMUF WRTP:
- The centerpiece of the program is a Research Practice course taught by Dr. Jacquelyn Ardam, one of the co-directors of the Mellon Mays program at UCLA. In the course, students will focus on three vital research skills: reading scholarly writing, writing for scholarly audiences, and presenting research for academic and general audiences. The course will approach reading, writing, and sharing academic research as ongoing, iterative processes. Students in the course will develop their individual research projects while learning skills relevant to researchers at any stage of their research journeys.
- The course is geared toward students who are working on the literature review portion of their research projects. Students who have already developed an extensive literature review may want to consider applying to other programs.
- Participants who successfully complete the course will receive UCLA course credit.
- Participants will also participate in an intensive graduate school preparation curriculum led by the program’s graduate student mentors. Students will meet with mentors in multiple individual and group mentoring sessions each week. The mentoring sessions cover topics including applying to graduate school, careers in the professoriate, professionalism, teaching, and academic writing and research skills.
- Participants will attend weekly lunches with program staff and guest speakers