Leah Everist ’18 selected as Carolina’s 39th Luce Scholar

Published on March 2, 2018
 

Leah Everist has become the 39th student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to receive the Luce Fellowship and the 33rd Morehead-Cain Scholar to receive the honor.

The program will provide Everist the opportunity to take part in a year-long internship working on community preparedness and disaster response efforts in Asia.

A health policy and management major and medical anthropology minor, Everist is the thirteenth Carolina student chosen by the Henry Luce Foundation within the past ten years. UNC-Chapel Hill now boasts more Luce Scholars than any other college or university in the United States.

Everist is one of only eighteen students to receive the fellowship nationwide.

Read more about Everist’s honor here.

  

 

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