Introduction

The Burch Fellows Program was established in 1993 by a gift from UNC-CH alumnus Lucius E. Burch III. Its purpose is to recognize undergraduate students at the University who possess extraordinary ability, promise, and imagination. It grants up to $6000 to support self-designed off-campus experiences that will enable them to pursue a passionate interest in a way and to a degree not otherwise possible.

Applications for 2008 Burch Fellowships were due Friday, February 15, 2008 .

Previous Burch Fellows Have...

• Studied the effects of globalization on traditional cultures in Bhutan and Ladakh, India
• Worked as a rehabilitation volunteer for children with cerebral palsy in Ghana
• Studied mime and stage combat in England
• Biked 2,700 miles through Western China to document lives of ethnic minorities
• Studied voice with an opera singer in New York City
• Apprenticed under a master door carver in Tanzania
• Worked with "flying doctors" in Kenya
• Studied traditional Chinese Medicine in Beijing
• Researched the Red Colubus monkey in Zanzibar
• Created a picture dictionary of the Coatzospan Mixtec language
• Retraced the steps of a Medieval pilgrimage in France and Spain