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The Morehead-Cain Scholarship (originally the Morehead Scholarship) was the first merit scholarship program established in the United States. [1] [2] [better source needed] It was founded at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1951 and was named for its benefactors, John Motley Morehead III and the Gordon and Mary Cain Foundation. [2]
Jul. 25—Josie Blackman, a member of the Hobbton High School 2023 graduating class, has accepted the prestigious Morehead-Cain Scholarship at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (UNC).
Wehazit Mussie will go to UNC Chapel Hill in the fall debt-free and as she is one of two students in Gaston County to become a Morehead-Cain scholar. Highland student follows her brother's lead to ...
The Morehead-Cain Scholarship also endowed a four-year, full merit scholarship in Carson's honor named the Eve Marie Carson Carolina Way Scholarship. The scholarship is expected to help attract qualified out-of-state students to the university and will provide recipients with additional programming and support during their undergraduate careers.
The program was created in 2000 by benefactor Julian Robertson, a 1955 graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill. Mr. Robertson sought to encourage collaboration between Duke and the University of North Carolina and to promote the development of young leaders. [2]
Of the more than 16,000 students announced this week as National Merit Scholarship semifinalists, 153 are from schools in Hillsborough, Pinellas, Pasco and Hernando counties. A semifinalist must ...
Morehead-Cain Scholarship (oldest merit-based undergraduate scholarship in the United States) Canada Millennium Scholarship (Canadian equivalent of US National Merit Scholarship program, awarded to ~2000 students every year, now defunct) Schulich Leader Scholarships (Major Canadian scholarship program awarding 100 scholarships annually)
Sep. 13—EVANSTON, Ill. — Officials of National Merit Scholarship Corporation Wednesday announced the names of more than 16,000 Semifinalists in the 69th annual National Merit Scholarship Program.