Impact Stories

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

Carolina Stories

13 Diplomacy Lab students in business attire pose for a group photo with Professor Neil Gaikwad

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UNC-Chapel Hill students help shape U.S. foreign policy

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

4 min read

Top 12 Carolina Stories 2025

BurchFellow

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Burch Fellows explore hidden side of Olympic Games

Kat Goodpaster in front of the FedEx Global Education Center.

4 min read

Global Heel: Kat Goodpaster

Portrait of Eleanor Murray in front of flowers.

2 min read

Connecting daydreaming with diplomacy

Neta Mishly smiles in front of a window.

2 min read

Promoting peace, piece-by-piece

Susan Gravely and Bill Ross gaze at each other on a balcony overlooking the city of Florence.

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Giving the Gift of Global Education

Phillips Ambassador T.J. Turner poses with some of his Korean and Japanese friends in Shiba Park with blooming cherry trees in the background.

3 min read

Ambassadors in Asia

Illustrated portraits of Kui Wu, a global studies major from Singapore, and Josh Evans, an economics major from the U.S.

3 min read

Joint Opportunities

Angum Check smiles and leans against a white railing with trees in the background

2 min read

An opportunity to go home