The Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Studies has been awarded to three Cornell undergraduates and one recent graduate. The recipients of the prestigious award, which includes a $13,500 stipend plus tuition and fees, are:

• Eric Chwang, of Dallas. Chwang, a Cornell philosophy major, will pursue graduate study in philosophy at Princeton University.
• Jon Miller, of Ithaca. Miller, a double major in religious studies and Asian studies, will study Buddhism at Yale University.
• Rosamond King, of Potomac, Md. King, a double major in the College Scholar Program and in English, will study comparative literature at New York University.
• Paige Shipman, Class of 1994, of Westerville, Ohio. Shipman, who majored in history at Cornell, will study history at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Ninety-five Mellon Fellowships were awarded in a range of fields, from anthropology to Spanish literature, from more than 900 applicants for the 1996-97 academic year. The awards, which are funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, were announced on April 12 by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, based in Princeton, N.J. Ten Cornellians had applied for this year's Mellon Fellowships. More than 1,400 Mellon Fellowships have been awarded over the past 14 years to college seniors and recent graduates of outstanding promise, with the goal of encouraging and assisting them in joining the humanities faculties of America's colleges and universities.