Impact Stories

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

Carolina Stories

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Ask a Professor: Jason Surratt on potential air pollution from harmful algal blooms

Students gather around the water fountain in front of Bynum Hall

7 min read

Deans reflect on 2025

Professor Flavio Frohlich faces the camera seated at a desk wearing tACS head-gear

4 min read

Top 12 Carolina Stories 2025

Kurt Ribisl smiles, facing the camera, with left hand on hip and the Gillings School of Global Public Health lobby blurred in the background.

3 min read

Ask a Professor: Kurt M. Ribisl on big vape’s paper trail

Portrait of Kathleen Duval reading book against library backdrop.

4 min read

Rewriting early America

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

7 min read

Nabarun Dasgupta wins MacArthur ‘genius grant’

Frank Leibfarth smiling in front of an outdoor background.

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Frank Leibfarth receives Carolina’s first Blavatnik award

A shoulders up portrait of Anne Maheux on a Carolina blue illustrated background.

4 min read

Ask a Professor: Anne Maheux on generative AI use among adolescents

Black and white portrait of Nabarun Dasgupta.

5 min read

The objective? Save lives.

Jeffrey Stringer sits in a chair and smiles facing the camera with ultrasound images patterned on the wall behind him.

8 min read

AI innovation in obstetrics

A man and a woman sit side-by-side in the seats of an auditorium. The man drapes his right arm around the woman while both face the camera.

8 min read

Crafting their story

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3 min read

UNC-Chapel Hill startup disrupts X-ray imaging