Impact Stories

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

Carolina Stories

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill physician and researcher Elizabeth Stringer

7 min read

Where She Needed To Be

Keshav Patel smiles with Polk Place in the background.

3 min read

Going in a new direction

1 min watch

A skill set for North Carolina

Rahima Benhabbour works in a lab.

1 min read

Long-lasting impact

Corinne Light '20

4 min read

The freedom to dream: Corinne's story

Sean.Matthews

4 min read

Bringing Basic Dental Care To All Of North Carolina

David Margolis smiles in a lab.

2 min read

HIV: Moving the field ahead

Karl Holt leans on a bench with campus scenery in the background.

1 min read

In service to others

Linda Kastleman/UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health

3 min read

Breathing…a sigh of relief for asthma sufferers

klinger

2 min read

How to get to Sesame Street

Joseph Piven and colleague look at brain scans on computers.

1 min watch

A first-of-its-kind way to predict autism

smithies

1 min read

Digitizing the lifetime record of an ‘everyday scientist’