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Information for Students

Academics

Frances L. Phillips Travel Scholarship
All full time, upperclass, undergraduate students enrolled in the College of Arts and Sciences who are interested in travel outside the United States are encouraged to apply. Applications due: 5 PM, October 15, 2009.

Class of '38 Summer Study Abroad FellowshipThe UNC-Chapel Hill Alumni Class of 1938 annually awards summer study abroad fellowships to Sophomores and Juniors interested in pursuing independent career or personal projects outside the United States. Applications due: Spring, 2010, Date TBA.

Burch Fellows Program
The Burch Fellows program recognizes undergraduate students at UNC and provides up to $6,000 to support self-designed off-campus experiences that will enable them to pursue a passionate interest. Applications due: Spring, 2010, Date TBA.

Fulbright-Hays Dissertation Research Award
This grant is only available to Ph.D. candidates who wish to engage in full-time dissertation research abroad in modern foreign languages and area studies. Contact Tripp Tuttle for more information: tripp.tuttle@unc.edu

Course List
Listing and course description of all courses offered on the UNC-CH campus that have significant African content. Please contact faculty members within each department for more information about individual courses.

Study Abroad
Information on all programs in Africa offered by the UNC-CH Study Abroad Office.

Major in African and Afro-American Studies
Offers a concentration in African Studies.

UNC Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases
The UNC Institute for Global Health & Infectious Diseases (IGHID)promotes global health research, teaching, and service activities across campus.

Office of Undergraduate Research
The Office of Undergraduate Research offers Undergraduate Research Support grants. These are awards of up to $750 for those who need essential supplies to go forward with a feasible research project.

Student Organizations

AGRADU
Advocates for Grassroots Development in Uganda (AGRADU) is a UNC student initiative aiming to support indigenous grassroots efforts at community building and economic development in Uganda. Through building and sustaining a relationship between Ugandan community-based organizations (CBOs) and UNC – Chapel Hill, AGRADU offers support with skills and resources via student interns and serves as a liaison for external funding and networking. The experiences of student interns will help to elevate the consciousness of the UNC community by exposing students to new cultures, histories and African issues.

Campus YMCA
Offers many opportunities for student involvement and service projects.

Carolina for Kibera
Carolina for Kibera Inc. began when UNC undergraduate Rye Barcott looked at the issues of ethnic violence and youth development in Africa and decided to try to make a difference. The organization he founded in 2001 was recently honored as one of 10 "Heroes of Global Health" by Time Magazine. CFK is a nonprofit international non-government organization housed at UNC’s University Center for International Studies and serving a community believed to be East Africa’s largest urban slum.

Invisible Children
Works to alleviate the suffering of former child soldiers in Africa. Contact Laura Hernandez for more information.

Nourish International
Nourish International's (NI) mission is to provide the infrastructure and support for college students to think critically and implement long-term solutions to eradicate poverty worldwide. NI is a student driven non-profit currently based at Campus Y of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. NI's college chapters set up entrepreneurial fundraising ventures to finance and implement sustainable development projects for communities in need.

O.A.S.I.S.
O.A.S.I.S. is dedicated to spreading awareness to our campus and the surrounding communities about the beauty of African Culture, to dispel sterotypes and myths, and to provide a social atmosphere in which Africans and non Africans can interact and learn from each other.

Students for Students International
S4Si is a UNC-Chapel Hill student run registered non-profit. The organization was set up in 1995, and is run by entirely by students. S4Si sponsors school tuition for disadvantaged children in Tanzania and Zimbabwe. The children are selected by teams of UNC students who fundraise for the scholarship and then travel to Africa. Fundraising and awareness events such as the annual ZimFest, teaching African dance to students, and the Adopt-a-Scholar program are an on-campus component of the organization.

Students United for Darfur Awareness Now is an organization at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill dedicated to doing whatever we can do as students to help the people affected by the genocide in Darfur, Sudan. We regularly hosts events both on and off the UNC campus with goals of raising awareness and educating about the genocide, lobbying for governmental action, and fundraising for relief and developmental efforts.

World Camp
World Camp, Inc. is a non-profit organization founded in 2000 by UNC-CH students following their travels through southern Africa. Seeing the devastating effects of HIV/AIDS, these students met with various ministries of education in order to establish contacts and evaluate specific country and regional needs. World Camp has worked with over 20,000 children in 150 rural schools and street shelters in Malawi. A unique volunteer program allows individuals to make a significant impact by teaching children and teachers over the course of three day educational camps in rural primary schools.