Graduate Named Recipient of Mellon Fellowship

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Amherst resident Paul T. Feigenbaum, a 1998 UB graduate, has been awarded a 1999 Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Studies from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.

Feigenbaum is one of only 98 winners of the prestigious award, which is the only national humanities graduate award. Nearly 800 of the country's top humanities scholars competed in the 1999 fellowship competition.

Feigenbaum, who will begin doctoral work at the University of Michigan Department of English Language and Literature this fall, has been working as an intern in Washington, D.C., at the Wilson Quarterly Journal since he graduated from UB. He received a bachelor's degree from the Department of English in the College of Arts and Sciences.

During his undergraduate career at UB, Feigenbaum was the recipient of the Arthur Axlerod Memorial Prize for Poetry in 1997 and the George Knight Houpt Prize for Excellence in English Studies in 1998. He spent his senior year abroad studying at Oxford University in England and Tübingen University in Germany.

More than 1,600 Mellon Fellows have been named since the award, sponsored by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, was initiated in 1982. Fellows may pursue doctoral degrees at any accredited graduate school of arts and sciences in the United States or Canada.