Two slain university students from North Georgia are being remembered with funds established at their schools.

The University of North Carolina has set up the Eve Marie Carson Memorial Fund in memory of the Athens native who served as UNC's student body president. A 2004 graduate of Clarke Central High School in Athens, Carson, 22, was found shot to death March 5. Police have charged Demario James Atwater, 21, and Lawrence Alvin Lovett Jr., 17, with first-degree murder.

Auburn University in Alabama is creating a scholarship fund in the name of Lauren Burk, an 18-year-old graduate of Walton High in east Cobb County. She was shot March 4. Courtney Lockhart, 23, has been charged with capital murder during a kidnapping, capital murder during a robbery and capital murder during an attempted rape.

Both shootings occurred off-campus.

Locally, a scholarship in Burk's memory has been established at Oglethorpe University, where her father serves on an advisory board.

The Lauren Ashley Burk Memorial Scholarship will be awarded annually to an Oglethorpe student studying art.

The first scholarship will be for $5,000 and will be awarded this spring for the 2008-09 school year, said media relations manager Elizabeth Pittman. Subsequent scholarship amounts will be based on a percentage of the endowment's future value. A scholarship selection committee will choose the winner each year. Tuition at Oglethorpe, a private university of about 1,000 students, is $24,242 per year.

James Burk, class of 1983, now serves as a member of his alma mater's President's Advisory Council, Pittman said.

In a statement, Oglethorpe University President Lawrence M. Schall said, "Lauren Burk was the light in the lives of many. Oglethorpe University is extremely honored to have been chosen to be part of her legacy. Through this scholarship Lauren will continue to have a lasting impact on the lives of others."

Information from The Associated Press was used in this article.

WANT TO HELP: Funds are in memory of Lauren Burk and Eve Carson.

> For information on the Lauren A. Burk Memorial Scholarship Fund at Oglethorpe University, see www.oglethorpe.edu.

> For information on the fund in Burk's memory at Auburn University, call 334-844-8700 or see ocm.auburn.edu.

> UNC has established the Eve Marie Carson Memorial Fund. The specific use of contribution will be determined in consultation with her family. Donations may be made online at giving.unc.edu/gift or mailed to P.O. Box 309, Chapel Hill, N.C. 27514-0309. For more information see universityrelations.unc.edu/alert/carson/carsonfund.html.