The Morehead-Cain Foundation is pleased to announce the members of its inaugural class of Morehead-Cain Global Fellows, who will begin their one-year fellowship program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC–Chapel Hill) in the fall of 2025. [...]
Kyle Lumsden ’25 has received a Fulbright award to conduct research on addiction medicine strategies in Jamaica. The Morehead-Cain is the second Fulbright U.S. Student Program awardee from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to Jamaica and the first since 1998, according to [...]
Maria Fernanda Silva ’22 of Lima, Peru, has been awarded a Schwarzman scholarship to pursue a master’s in global affairs at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. Maria is the twelfth Schwarzman Scholar from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill since [...]
Written by William Dahl ’25, Morehead-Cain Scholar Media Team When Jesse Moore ’01 arrived in Kenya more than a decade ago, little would suggest that he’d be named in TIME magazine as the leader of one of the world’s most influential companies. “I had [...]
Anna Connors ’24 and Aayas Joshi ’26 have received the 2023 Rich Beckman Documentary Award from the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media. The award goes to a journalism student or students to “conduct fieldwork for documentary storytelling or interactive multimedia [...]
Three Morehead-Cain Scholars—Amalia Marmolejos ’23, Tess McGrinder ’23, and Olivia Romine ’23—have received Fulbright Scholarships to pursue internships, studies, and teaching opportunities abroad. Eighteen other students from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill were selected as finalists for the [...]
Olivia Romine ’23 has received the Fulbright-García Robles Scholarship through the Binational Internship Program for U.S. Students to pursue a business internship and studies in Mexico following her graduation from UNC–Chapel Hill this spring. The program funds internships in Mexican [...]
Written by Cate Miller ’25 of the Morehead-Cain Scholar Media Team Ethan Phillips ’23 has received the John and Daria Barry Scholarship to pursue studies in health policy, health economics, and global health research at Oxford University in England. The scholarship recognizes [...]
Written by Laurelle Maubert ’25, Morehead-Cain Scholar Media Team Member When it comes to Morehead-Cains embracing a global perspective, James Ellsmoor ’16 is a choice example within the community. The British alumnus has followed his interests in sustainability and entrepreneurship, [...]
This story was originally posted via unc.edu on December 9, 2022. Martha Isaacs ’17 has been awarded a prestigious Schwarzman scholarship, which funds a master’s in global affairs at Beijing’s Tsinghua University. Isaacs is Carolina’s 12th Schwarzman Scholar since the scholarship began [...]