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Chattanoogan: Signal Mountain High’s Siena Rodrigues Excited About Being School’s First Morehead-Cain Scholar To UNC Wednesday, May 19, 2021 - by John Shearer
Siena Rodrigues
Siena Rodrigues
When graduating Signal Mountain High School senior Siena Rodrigues was at the school track one Friday in early March throwing the discus, she could be seen excitedly hugging one teammate and running up to several others.
It was not over where her discus had landed, but where she was getting ready to land as a future college student after receiving an update on her phone.
But she did set a school record in the process, not in her discus throw during practice as an observer from a distance might have thought, but by being the first student from the school to receive the prestigious Morehead-Cain Scholarship to the University of North Carolina.
76 New Morehead-Cain Scholars Named Including Durham, Orange County Students
The Morehead-Cain Foundation announced its Class of 2025 recipients of its scholarship on Wednesday, including two Orange County students and two Durham County students who will attend UNC on the prestigious scholarship.
The foundation shared 76 incoming students who earned spots in the merit-based scholarship program, a class that includes rising first-years from 21 states, the United Kingdom, Canada and Nepal.
Julian Taylor and Gracie Young, both students from Orange County, are among them. Taylor, who will graduate from Carrboro High School this spring, moved to the Chapel Hill area in 2015. During his time in high school, he co-founded Carrboro High’s Black and Brown Student Coalition, which provides students of color a platform to discuss several topics affecting their school experiences. Young, who is set to graduate from Cedar Ridge High School, serves as the co-president of Key Club and the Scie
UNC System Board of Governors Approves 4 New Trustees for UNC-CH
The UNC System Board of Governors approved several new trustees for UNC-Chapel Hill during its monthly full board meeting.
The university system leadership approved Rob Bryan III, Perrin Jones, Malcom Turner and Ramsey White on Thursday morning, adding them to the ranks of the Chapel Hill university’s Board of Trustees.
Bryan, Jones and White’s appointments were unanimously approved, while Turner’s candidacy had a separate vote. While some system governors expressed concerns about Turner’s current role as head of strategy and corporate development for the sports gambling site DraftKings, his appointment also passed with an 18-6 vote.