Carolina Scholarships

The Carolina Scholarships were established in the 1990s to attract the most academically qualified students to UNC, regardless of financial need. Recipients demonstrate superior academic achievement, self-direction, intellectual curiosity, and a genuine motivation for learning. Carolina Scholars are automatically invited to join the UNC Scholars Program, which grew in part out of the Carolina Scholars Program. There are nearly forty named Carolina Scholarships representing many donors; while most are specific to NC residents, there are several that are earmarked for non-residents.

Mentors

Hans Christianson

Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
Department of Mathematics

Current Scholars: Class of 2025

Hometown: I have been at UNC for 13 years, and North Carolina is home. I grew up in Fargo, ND; attended college at UMN in Minneapolis, MN; attended graduate school at UC-Berkeley in Berkeley, CA; I was a postdoc at MIT in Cambridge, MA; and finally faculty at UNC.

Research Areas: Partial differential equations, mathematical physics, and scattering theory.

Classes Taught: Calculus, linear algebra, ODE, real analysis, and graduate courses.

Joe Fletcher

Teaching Associate Professor
Department of English and Comparative Literature

Current Scholars: Class of 2026

Hometown: Okemos, Michigan

Research areas: British long 18th century, British Romanticism, Literature and Science, Creative Writing

Courses taught: First-Year Writing in the Natural Sciences, Horror Literature, Intro to Poetry, Intro to Fiction

Patrick Harrison

Teaching Associate Professor and Director of Instructional Development
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience

Current Scholars: Class of 2027

Hometown: Grand Rapids, Michigan

Research Areas: Positive psychology, intergroup relations, and pedagogy.

Classes Taught: PSYC210: Statistical Principles of Psychological Research; PSYC270: Research Methods in Psychology; and PSYC501: Theoretical, Empirical Perspectives on Personality.