In August 2025, twelve exceptional student leaders from around the world arrived at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC–Chapel Hill) as the inaugural cohort of Morehead-Cain Global Fellows. They came from Brazil, India, Nigeria, and Turkey, nominated [...]
Willow Taylor Chiang Yang ’25 of Burlingame, California, has received the Barry Scholarship to pursue a master’s in political research at the University of Oxford. She will begin her graduate studies this fall. Willow earned a bachelor’s with distinction in American political economy [...]
Ben Ousley Naseman ’96 returned to Carolina to help launch and lead the Morehead-Cain Global Fellows program, an initiative designed to bring exceptional undergraduate students from around the world to study at UNC–Chapel Hill for one year. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Written by Laurelle Maubert ’25, Morehead-Cain Scholar Media Team Member Dicle Kara ’16 followed a familiar playbook as a rising senior in college. Land a solid summer internship, get offered a full-time position from the same company, and start earning [...]
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