Undergraduate Education

UNC senior awarded 2013 Boren Scholarship to aid national security

UNC senior Anastasia Elise Bury of South Haven, Mich., has received a David L. Boren Scholarship through the National Security Education Program to benefit U.S. intelligence efforts. For 12 months, Bury will study abroad in Tajikistan where she will learn Tajik, a dialect of modern Persian that is unknown to many because it’s spoken in few parts of the world.

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Nine students from UNC receive critical language scholarships

Nine students from UNC have been awarded a U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) to study critical needs languages during the summer of 2013. The students, their languages, and host countries are: Joseph Calder Jr., Persian, Tajikistan; Nathan D’Ambrosio, Arabic, Morocco; Fareeda Zikry, Arabic, Jordan; Philip Delvecchio, Chinese, China; Brandon Johnson, Chinese, China;

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Kenan Music Scholar masters her art, gets down to business

Kenan Music Scholar and senior Ning Lee has appreciated the broad and holistic educational opportunity she has experience at Carolina. “It has been the best of both worlds because I have studied with renowned musicians and enjoyed the flexibility to pursue many avenues of scholarship,” she said.

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First-year student Jake Bernstein named a Forbes ’30 under 30’ social entrepreneur

Morehead-Cain Scholar Jake Bernstein is finishing up his first year at Carolina, but he was 15 years old when he started his first nonprofit with his sister, Simone. Their organization, VolunTEENnation.org, was originally designed to help teenagers in their hometown of St. Louis, Mo., find volunteer opportunities.

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