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GEF Blog: Advancing Education in Karenni Refugee Camps
The Global Engagement Fellowship (GEF) supports UNC Chapel Hill students conducting international social-justice oriented summer projects. The following blog was written by GEF recipient Anna DeGrauw. At the entrance of Ban Mae Surin, thin vines wrap themselves along tree branches that hang over the river. The water gently flows past … Read more
Seven Campus Y members inducted into The Order of the Golden Fleece
The 2018 Campus Y Order of the Golden Fleece inductees include Alexander Peeples, Mistyre Bonds, Courtney Staton, Tiffany Turner, and Raymundo Garcia. The Order of the Golden Fleece was founded in 1904 to unite student leaders at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Considered the highest honorary society … Read more
Leah Everist named Luce Scholar
Leah Everist, a fourth-year student with roots at the Campus Y, has been named a 2018 Luce Scholar. She is one of only 18 students in the United States selected for this prestigious internship program in Asia. [Read UNC’s official press release about Everist here.] Everist has garnered an impressive … Read more
Phyta to compete in Melbourne for Hult Prize
Editor’s Note: Congratulations to Phyta! The team has won the Hult Prize Melbourne Regional Final. Phyta, a current CUBE venture powered by Eliza Harrison (’19), Lucy Best (’19), and Emily Kian (’20), is making waves at startup competitions across the globe. This weekend the team will compete in Melbourne, Australia … Read more
we are Receives $125,000 Grant from Kenan Charitable Trust
“All of my life experiences up to this point have prepared me for this very moment,” said Ronda Taylor Bullock in a Facebook post Tuesday, January 30. Bullock announced that her organization we are (working to extend anti-racist education) has received a $125,000 grant from the Kenan Charitable Trust to …
Could you give a brief overview of your path to UNC? My parents and three sisters fled the civil war in El Salvador and migrated to Los Angeles about ten years before I was born. Right before my first birthday, they decided to move across the country from Los Angeles … Read more
Campus Y alum finds purpose and passion on pupusa food truck
Campus Y announces 2018 Kenan Biddle Partnership grantees
The Campus Y has announced the 2018 recipients of the Kenan Biddle Partnership grants program. Funded by the Kenan Charitable Trust and the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation, the Kenan Biddle Partnership will award a total of $55,000 to seven teams comprised of UNC and Duke students. The Kenan Biddle Partnership … Read more
Lessons learned at The Nour Center
Lucia and one of the students in the Nour Center kindergarten class. The following blog was written by Lucia Mock. My work bag is full of silver and blue glitter, and for the past few days, everything that I grab out of this bag – usually important things like my … Read more
Project Heel visits Ghana
The following blog was written by Jacob Stocks and Gretchen Blankinship. We are members of the Campus Y organization Project Heel, and this past May we traveled to West Africa where we partnered with a primary school and the Methodist Clinic in Lawra, Ghana. Lawra is a rural community located … Read more
Campus Y selects 2017-2018 Global Gap Year Fellows
The Campus Y at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has selected ten 2017-2018 Global Gap Year Fellowship (GGYF) recipients. These eight, incoming first-year students and two rising juniors will defer a year of university enrollment to gain informal, global education that combines volunteer service, work, and international … Read more