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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Ethan Phillips ’23 receives Barry Scholarship to pursue health policy, global health research at Oxford University
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 [...]
Martha Isaacs ’17 named Schwarzman Scholar
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 [...]
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. [...]
