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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
By University Communications, posted via unc.edu on November 22, 2021. Carolina alumnus Kimathi Muiruri has received the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship, making him the 54th Tar Heel to be named a Rhodes Scholar. Muiruri, a member of Carolina’s Class of 2021, was a Morehead-Cain [...]
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 [...]
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