Senior Chris Carter, a Morehead-Cain Scholar from Elkin, has won a Gates Cambridge Scholarship, a merit award covering one to three years of graduate studies at the University of Cambridge in England.
Carter is the first UNC student to win the scholarship since the award was created in 2001, and is one of 30 winners in the United States this year.
The Gates Cambridge Scholarship was created with a $210 million donation from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. It provides scholarships for 80-100 students worldwide each year to attend Cambridge, based on their demonstrated intellectual ability, leadership and desire to perform community service.
Carter, born and raised in Elkin, is majoring in history and political science. He is writing an honors thesis on public opinion of health care and will present his findings at the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress in Washington, D.C., in March. He hopes to get his Ph.D. in political science, focusing on Latin America.
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