Public health undergraduates receive study abroad scholarships
| June 25, 2010 | |
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Bachelor of Science in Public Health students Lauren Blanchet, Lauren Brown and Christopher Zieber were among 163 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill undergraduates selected in 2010 to receive scholarships and fellowships totaling about $637,000. The awards, funded by private gifts, enable students to study in other countries for a semester, summer or full year.
Blanchet, a rising junior health policy and management major from Albany, New York, studied last spring in Granada, Spain, in the School for International Training’s Language, Community and Social Change program. She received a Bejarano-Benning Study Abroad Scholarship for Spain/Iberian Peninsula.
Brown, a rising senior nutrition major from Mocksville, N.C., will study this summer in China in the Carolina Entrepreneurial Initiative in Beijing program. She is a Phillips Ambassador.
Zieber, a rising senior environmental science major from Asheville, N.C., will study this summer in the Burch Field Research Seminar in Alaska and Iceland. He received a William C. Friday Award.
More than one-third of UNC undergraduates study in other lands before they graduate – representing one of the highest study abroad participation rates among public universities nationwide. UNC’s Study Abroad Office offers more than 300 programs in more than 70 countries around the world.
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UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health contact: Ramona DuBose, director of communications, (919) 966-7467 or ramona_dubose@unc.edu. |
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