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CHAPEL HILL -
Thirteen Triangle high school students are among the winners of Morehead-Cain Scholarships at UNC-Chapel Hill.The prestigious scholarship pays all expenses for four years of undergraduate study, including the cost of a laptop computer and four summer enrichment experiences. Its value is about $80,000 for each in-state student and $140,000 for each out-of-state student.Nationally, 79 winners were chosen, including 42 from North Carolina. In addition, three each were picked from Great Britain and Canada.The winners were announced Wednesday. The announcement had been planned for last Thursday -- the day the UNC-CH campus learned of the slaying of Morehead-Cain Scholar Eve Carson. The announcement was postponed as the campus grieved.The Morehead Scholarship and Morehead Foundation were renamed in February 2007 after the foundation received a $100 million grant from the Gordon and Mary Cain Foundation of Houston.More than 1,500 high school seniors were nominated by their high schools or applied for the Morehead-Cain Scholarship. The winners have until April 14 to accept the award.Among the winners was Shivani Sud, a student at Jordan High School in Durham, who this week also won the Intel Science Talent Search, a competition often referred to as the "junior Nobel Prize."
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