Impact Stories

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

Carolina Stories

Jayne Davis and Jennie Ergott stand side by side with hands on hips in Davis Library.

2 min read

Invaluable resources lead to student success

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Pilot program brings West Africa to local classrooms

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Carolina’s libraries connect a dad and daughter

A person writing a letter.

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The lost art of letters

Exterior of the Learning Center building.

2 min read

A resource for all

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

2 min read

Entrepreneurial engineering

Waleed Ziad stands outside holding a laptop next to a woman who is setting up a video camera.

2 min read

Cataloging with the local community

Cayla Colclasure works with historical documents.

2 min read

Tracking history

Camara sits in front of digitized Pulaar manuscripts.

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Preserving Pulaar poetry

Diamond Holloman, a PhD candidate at UNC-Chapel Hill, listens to Malinda Maynor Lowery, co-director of Southern futures at a meeting in a community center in Robeson County.

2 min read

The Human Side of Research

Morehead-Cain scholar Sarah Mackenzie sits atop a camel in Petra, Jordan.

2 min read

Saying 'Yes' To Opportunities

Terry Long holds up a petri dish containing small green plants.

1 min read

Farm to lab