Gift Announcements

Stories celebrating philanthropic gifts and the impact donors make possible.

Carolina Stories

Nabarun Dasgupta stands smiling with arms crossed with a colorful artwork in the background.

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Nabarun Dasgupta wins MacArthur ‘genius grant’

UNC alumni Heath Massey (BA ’83), left, and John Mitchener (BSBA ’81).

4 min read

New eminent professorship to support melanoma research

UNC-Chapel Hill and NC State University graduation caps laying one on top of the other

4 min read

With $20M Investment, Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering Named for Ross W. Lampe Jr.

Carolina women's soccer team members jump with glee on the soccer field.

4 min read

Because of you: 2024 giving highlights

Three people smile for a picture on a golf course.

4 min read

Elmore family endows fund for mental health in western North Carolina

A portrait of the late Joan Gillings. Joan is leaning into the frame from the left and looking into the distance.

6 min read

A legacy of excellence, strength and opportunity

Ian Shih, Scott Tyler Albert, Sheng Song and Adam Hantman pose in front of an MRI machine in the Shih Lab.

8 min read

How damaged brains recover

Michol Dawson with family.

4 min read

Accelerating students' impact on global public health

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

4 min read

A Family’s Legacy of Education and Curiosity

UNC School of Social Work Dean Ramona Denby-Brinson.

2 min read

Addressing kinship care

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

2 min read

Combatting opioid use disorder

A box on the back of a bike reads UNC Project Lilongwe, Malawi

2 min read

State-of-the-art facility, state-of-the-art care