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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Alumnus Kimathi Muiruri becomes Carolina’s 54th Rhodes Scholar
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 [...]
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. [...]
Daniel Malawsky ’20 awarded two scholarships for genomic sciences research
Daniel Malawsky ’20 has received dual scholarships to pursue a master’s and a doctoral degree in England. The biostatistics and mathematics double major will first study biological sciences with a focus on medical genetics research at the University of Cambridge’s [...]
Wesley Price ’20 receives Luce Scholarship
Wesley Price ’20 has received the Luce Scholarship, a nationally competitive fellowship program, to pursue policy research in Jakarta, Indonesia, next year. The political science and biology major will work at either Pulse Lab Jakarta, The SMERU Research Institute, or the National Team for [...]
