CHAPEL HILL — A Richmond County native is among 182 University of North Carolina students to receive study-abroad funding this year.

Caroline Bartlett of Hamlet was selected this summer for the Carolina Southeast Asia Program in Singapore, Malaysia and Japan. Bartlett is a psychology major.

UNC-Chapel Hill has provided $811,330 in scholarships, fellowships and program support to 182 students pursuing semester and summer programs in spring, summer and fall 2015 and students pursuing yearlong programs for the 2015-16 academic year. Funded by private gifts to the College of Arts and Sciences, the awards enable students to study in other countries for a semester, summer or year.

Nearly one-third of UNC-Chapel Hill undergraduates study outside of the United States before they graduate – one of the highest study abroad rates among public universities nationwide. The Study Abroad Office in the College offers more than 325 programs in more than 70 countries.

Also receiving study-abroad support was Elizabeth Harvell of Mount Gilead, who studied in the Burch Field Research Seminar “Moving Toward a Low-Carbon Future: Sustainability and Storytelling in Germany and Spain.”

A journalism and mass communication major, Harvell received an award from the Sarah Quinn Laney Memorial Fund.

For the Daily Journal