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Any full-time undergraduate student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill may apply, provided that, at the time of application, he or she has completed at least one but not more than six semesters. Regardless of a student's official class standing, it is the expectation of the Program that a student will have two semesters at UNC-CH following completion of the Burch Fellowship experience and prior to graduation. The range and nature of possible fellowships are bounded only by the imagination and resourcefulness of the applicants. In past years, Burch Fellows have conducted an oral history orf North African women living in Paris, investigated the absorption of Ethiopian Jews in Israel, discovered a Franz Listz piano transcription of an Hector Berlioz symphony, studied the impact of deforestation on the Huarani people of the Amazon, taught schoolchildren in Los Angeles, explored Japanese culture on the island of Hokkaido. They have also worked with AIDS patients in New York's Bellevue hospital, studied midwifery in Ireland, and explored the Sephardic language and culture in New York, Madrid, and Israel. Each year's Burch Fellows are selected early in the spring semester by a committee of university faculty. The Burch Committee looks for students who demonstrate:
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