Student Achievement News

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

Alexander Peeples, a senior, and Shauna Rust ’16 have been named recipients of the George J. Mitchell Scholarship, which supports graduate studies in Ireland. read more

The UNC School of Media and Journalism has a new banner in its future after winning its third straight Hearst national championship — often called the Pulitzer of college journalism read more