How did the Royster Society of Fellows get started?
The Royster Society of Fellows was launched in 1996 as the Carolina Society of Fellows, a program envisioned as the graduate level equivalent of the university’s Morehead Scholars program for undergraduates. In 1997, the program was renamed to honor Dr. Thomas S. Royster and Mrs. Caroline H. Royster for their generosity in making the fellowship program a reality. The Royster Society of Fellows is an interdisciplinary, university-wide fellowship program that allows Carolina to recruit the most promising doctoral students from across the nation and then support them in reaching their highest potential. The Society of Fellows includes fellowships named for Dr. Thomas S. Royster and Mrs. Caroline H. Royster, Mrs. Victor Humphreys, William R. Kenan Jr., John Motley Morehead, Joseph E. Pogue, and William N. Reynolds. The program is designed to broaden students’ intellectual horizons and develop their leadership skills through discussions with fellows from other departments, presentations, an
