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

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Watching all the stars align

A conceptual rendering of the Argus Array telescope system

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Developing the world’s largest sky-survey telescope

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

4 min read

Top 12 Carolina Stories 2025

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

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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

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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.

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A mathematical biologist walks up to a farmer

Student working in lab.

3 min read

Teaching beyond the scope of a classroom

Maggie Ambrose faces the camera with sand and sea behind her

3 min read

Making the most of Carolina’s makerspaces

Fellows from Southern Futures Undergraduate Fellows.

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Southern voices, future leaders

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

2 min read

Entrepreneurial engineering

UNC Makerspace employees taking a RYOBI training via video call.

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A greater toolkit