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 [...]
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. [...]
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 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 [...]
Canadian Morehead-Cain Scholar Raymond Tu ’21 has received the McCall MacBain Scholarship as part of its inaugural class of scholars and as the only student selected from an American college or university. The Guelph, Ontario, native and 19 other students [...]
Written by Sarah O’Carroll, Morehead-Cain Foundation Sarah Mackenzie ’20 of Calgary, Alberta, has received the Rhodes Scholarship to pursue a fully funded postgraduate degree at the University of Oxford beginning this fall. The recent graduate is one of 11 Canadians to receive [...]
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 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 [...]
Mina Yakubu ’21 has received the 2020 Truman Scholarship, a graduate fellowship program that supports those pursuing careers in public service. The $30,000 scholarship by The Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation will allow Mina to attend law school following her graduation from [...]