La Crosse virus research gets personal
Silas Durham ’27 describes his 2024-2025 internship with the North Carolina Collaboratory. [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
Three recent graduates awarded Fulbright Scholarships to pursue international internships, teach abroad
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 receives Fulbright-García Robles Scholarship to pursue business internship, studies in Mexico
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 [...]
UNC-Chapel Hill Alumnus Justin Hadad named Rhodes Scholar
By Kate Maroney, University Communications, posted via unc.edu on November 21, 2021. Justin Hadad, a 2021 graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has been selected for the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship, which funds study at the University of Oxford. [...]
Takhona Hlatshwako ’22 named Rhodes Scholar to pursue international health, tropical medicine at Oxford University
Written by Sarah O’Carroll, Morehead-Cain Foundation Takhona Hlatshwako ’22 of the Kingdom of Eswatini in Southern Africa (formerly Swaziland) has been named a Rhodes Scholar to pursue a fully funded postgraduate degree at the University of Oxford beginning next fall. [...]
Francie Sentilles ’21 awarded Fulbright grant to research impact of oil spills, COVID-19 in Brazilian fishing communities
Francie Sentilles ’21 of Memphis, Tennessee, has been awarded a grant from the Fulbright U.S. Student Program to conduct a self-designed project in Bahia, Brazil. The recent graduate plans to research adaptation strategies deployed by artisanal fishing communities following the 2019 oil spill in [...]
