Impact Stories

Stories that show how privately funded research, programs and initiatives are making a difference.

Carolina Stories

Students gather around the water fountain in front of Bynum Hall

7 min read

Deans reflect on 2025

Portrait of Sarah McGlothlin against blue and yellow squiggle graphic.

3 min read

A journey beyond Darwin

Segovia-Chumbez wears graduation regalia while sitting on cement wall with "Adams School of Dentistry" sign on it.

3 min read

Covenant Scholar’s dentistry path leads back to rural service

Aerial view of MAHEC buildings in Asheville.

4 min read

UNC Health Sciences at MAHEC responds to Helene

South Building at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

3 min read

In SCiLL pilot, students to exercise free expression, civil discourse

Five people take a selfie outdoors under a patio umbrella at night.

4 min read

Q&A: Ebon Freeman-James

An aerial shot of the Galapagos Science Center with a beach in the foreground

5 min read

Inaugural Kenan Galapagos Fellows launch new research

Jed Atkins in front of the Old Well

4 min read

Meet Jed Atkins, SCiLL director and dean

Tung Nguyễn leans against a table in a lab at the Adams School of Dentistry

2 min read

Advancing a profession

Mathias Zimba stands with two mothers in front of a home in rural Zambia

3 min read

Meet Mathias Zimba, executive director of Rising Fountains

Hayley Cartee throws sticky notes in the air during a performance of Every Brilliant Thing.

2 min read

‘Every Brilliant Thing’ uses theater to build resilience

UNC School of Social Work Dean Ramona Denby-Brinson.

2 min read

Addressing kinship care