Andrew Royce Bauer, a senior Honors student in African, African American and Diaspora Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has been selected to participate in the Canada-based Killam Fellowships Program administered by Fulbright Canada.
Bauer will spend the spring 2016 semester at McGill University in Montreal, Québec.
He is one of 38 students from universities throughout the United States to be selected for the program, which is designed to facilitate the exchange of ideas and scholarship between Canada and the United States.
Bauer, who is also completing a minor in entrepreneurship, is the CEO of his family’s leather company, Royce, in Secaucus, N.J., and developer of the Royce Freedom Wallet. The wallet contains GPS technology that allows its owner to keep track of its location using a smartphone app available on both Apple and Android iOS. The 21-year-old began working on the Freedom Wallet concept while taking entrepreneurship classes at UNC.
Bauer’s work has received attention from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, NBC’s The Today Show, Glamour Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, BBC, Entrepreneur Magazine, Fortune, Fast Company, Inc. Magazine and Forbes. He has also written for The Daily Tar Heel.
In addition to his interest in entrepreneurship, Bauer is passionate about nonprofit work that benefits marginalized communities. He has donated over $100,000 to United Way and has worked with underrepresented populations in Sint Maarten in the Kingdom of Netherlands through the UNC Class of 1938 Fellowship. Bauer also donated to the Kramden Institute in Durham to provide computers to students in North Carolina in homes without one.
The Killam Fellowships Program provides $5,000 for the semester as well as $500 to cover some health insurance costs. The Foundation hosts all new Killam Fellows at an orientation program in Ottawa each fall and again at a seminar in Washington, D.C., each spring. In addition, all Fellows are eligible to apply for a mobility grant and engage in enrichment opportunities for alumni.
For more information about Killam Fellowships, visit http://www.killamfellowships.com/
