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MMUF PhD Julius Fleming, Jr. is the recent recipient of two major scholarly awards: the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation's Nancy Weiss Malkiel Scholars award and the Comparative and International Education Society's Emerging Scholar of the African Diaspora award.

MMUF PhD Amina Gautier is one of two 2018 winners of the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story. Dr. Gautier, who was selected as an MMUF fellow at Stanford University, earned her PhD in English from the University of Miami. She is the author of the short story collections At-Risk, Now We Will Be Happy, and The Loss of All Lost Things. Congratulations to Dr. Gautier!

City College of New York undergraduate MMUF fellow Yasmine El Gheur has been named the valedictorian of CCNY's Class of 2018 -- the second time in three years that a CCNY MMUF fellow has been CCNY's valedictorian or salutatorian, following Orubba Almansouri's being awarded the latter honor in 2016.

Camille Borders, an undergraduate MMUF fellow at Washington University in St. Louis, is one of 32 students selected this year as recipients of the Rhodes scholarship, which allows winners to pursue advanced degrees at Oxford University. Camille, a history major who will graduate in 2018, plans to pursue a master of philosophy degree in social and economic history, with a focus on the global slave trade. Our warmest congratulations to Camille!