Impact Stories

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

Carolina Stories

Collage of Yessenia during her travels: in front of a light house, sitting in a field and standing on a cliff.

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Yessenia Estrada-Zerhoudi is one C-STEP ahead

Lyric Locklear in front of the Old Well.

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Lumbee senior focuses on traditional ways of healing

Carolina women's soccer team members jump with glee on the soccer field.

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Because of you: 2024 giving highlights

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.

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A passion for math leads to a new path

Senior Rachel Geyer is researching why some corals grow more complex skeletons and how that might make them more resilient.

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Student’s research to help endangered coral

Man peers down at his phone in one hand while being surrounded by trees.

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Senior researches cicadas’ impact on local food web

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Going beyond degree completion

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Carolina’s libraries connect a dad and daughter

Kat Goodpaster in front of the FedEx Global Education Center.

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Global Heel: Kat Goodpaster

A person writing a letter.

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The lost art of letters

Karen Jordan calling for the UNC crew team as coxswain.

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Steering toward sustainability