La Crosse virus research gets personal
Silas Durham ’27 describes his 2024-2025 internship with the North Carolina Collaboratory. [...]
Stories from Our Community
Rotimi Kukoyi ’26 named Rhodes Scholar
By UNC Office of Distinguished Scholarships, posted on unc.edu on November 17, 2025. For the second time ever, UNC–Chapel Hill has three Rhodes Scholars in the same year. Rotimi Kukoyi ’26 received the honor on Saturday, alongside fellow Carolina seniors Tiana Dinham and Gabrielle Moreau. With fifty-seven [...]
Global fellow Güneş Tuğcu ’26 loves to learn and pay it forward
By Kristen Grant, University Communications and Marketing, posted via unc.edu on October 16, 2025. As a child growing up in Mersin, Turkey, Güneş Tuğcu (Morehead-Cain Global Fellow ’26) taught herself English by watching American TV shows. She was fascinated by [...]
Meet Morehead-Cain Global Fellow Rotdalmwa Dimka ’26
By Susan Hudson, University Communications and Marketing, posted via unc.edu on October 10, 2025. Global fellow Rotdalmwa Joan Dimka ’26 does biochemistry research, studies educational curriculum, and writes poetry at Carolina. “The more I invest in each of them, they always [...]
Global fellow hopes to explore the United States
A development and economics student from India, Morehead-Cain Global Fellow Atharv Joshi ’26 is also broadening the topics he studies at Carolina. [...]
Introducing the inaugural class of Morehead-Cain Global Fellows
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 awarded Fulbright for addiction medicine research in Jamaica
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 Silva ’22 named Schwarzman Scholar
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 [...]
Jesse Moore ’01, co-founder and CEO of M-KOPA: Leading the social enterprise industry
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, Aayas Joshi ’26 awarded Rich Beckman Documentary Award to document effects of climate change in Arctic Circle
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 [...]
