Student Achievement News

Two alumni from the class of 2020, Peter Andringa and Sarah Mackenzie, have won Rhodes Scholarships, the world’s oldest and best-known awards for graduate study, based at the University of Oxford in England. read more

Two Carolina students have been selected for the prestigious Gates Cambridge scholarship — a competitive fully funded scholarship for graduate study in any subject available at the University of Cambridge in England. read more

Twenty-three students and recent graduates of the University have been selected to receive the Fulbright U.S. Student Program awards for 2019-20, the highest number of recipients from UNC in one year. read more

Sophomore Elayna Locklear, a member of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, has been awarded the Udall Scholarship. read more

Andrew Pendergast has been selected for the Goldwater Scholarship, considered one of the most prestigious undergraduate scholarships in natural sciences, mathematics and engineering in America. read more

Scott Emmons received the research-focused award that provides funding for a year of master’s degree study at Churchill College at the University of Cambridge in England. read more

Maggie Hilderbran has received the graduate studies scholarship to study at up to two United Kingdom institutions, in any field of study. read more

A Carolina alumnus — who as an undergraduate researched arts and peace education and more recently, as a UNC employee, developed a violence prevention program for undergraduate and graduate students — has been awarded a Gates Cambridge… read more

Leah Everist, a UNC senior, is the University’s 39th Luce Scholar and its 13th in the past 10 years. read more