Impact Stories

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

Carolina Stories

Nicholas Law, head of the Argus Array project, poses with a telescope beneath the Milky Way

8 min read

Watching all the stars align

Portrait of David Ardia with a Carolina blue and navy argyle graphic

3 min read

Ask a Professor: David Ardia on balancing innovation and regulation

A conceptual rendering of the Argus Array telescope system

6 min read

Developing the world’s largest sky-survey telescope

A colorful illustration of a brain with social media icons and emojis inside it.

6 min read

Tips for parents to keep in mind when shopping for devices

Left: Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Gene Roberts ’54; Right: An 1895 woodblock print by Kobayashi Kiyochika

4 min read

Top 10 Carolina Stories 2024

Matthew Thornton looks into the distance with the Bell Tower in the background.

2 min read

A passion for math leads to a new path

UNC School of Data Science faculty Alex McAvoy, Santiago Olivella and Harlin Lee.

9 min read

A mathematical biologist walks up to a farmer

Fellows from Southern Futures Undergraduate Fellows.

9 min read

Southern voices, future leaders

Charlotte Dorn stands on the coast wearing a U.N.C. hat.

2 min read

Entrepreneurial engineering

organ_donor_illustration

3 min read

Smarter Organ Transplants

Eric Weimer and Katherine Newhall stand together in a lab, looking at a tablet.

2 min read

Improving organ transplantation

Mohit Bansal

2 min read

Transforming educational experiences