Gift Announcements

Stories celebrating philanthropic gifts and the impact donors make possible.

Carolina Stories

Nikin and Rashmi Shah with their three children in front of a UNC sign.

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A Family’s Legacy of Education and Curiosity

Stephen H. Israel portrait

6 min read

$10 Million Gift Seeks to Ignite a ‘Humanities Renaissance’ at UNC-Chapel Hill

Illustration of John Powell and Jacquelyn Dowd Hall from the shoulders up

6 min read

Honoring a pioneering scholar of the South

A view of the Old Well framed through the doorway of South Building

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Gift establishes first endowed professorship for faculty of the new School of Civic Life and Leadership

A portrait from the shoulders up of Maribel Carrion with The Well in the background.

2 min read

Finding a way

Luther Hodges shakes hands with a student.

2 min read

Luther Hodges Scholars

(Left to right) Kate Golson and Fareeda Akewusola pose together courtside at a Carolina basketball game in the Dean E. Smith Center.

2 min read

Attracting exceptional students

Members of Stacey Daughters’ lab. (Flavio Frohlich is second from left; Daughters is fifth from left.)

2 min read

Combatting opioid use disorder

Wynn Burrus sits on the quad on a sunny day in front of Wilson Library.

2 min read

Selfless leadership

Bill Starling stands in front of the Kenan-Flagler Business School.

2 min read

Honoring a mentor

Ronit Freeman stands at a desk.

1 min read

Early career excellence

UNC Makerspace employees taking a RYOBI training via video call.

2 min read

A greater toolkit