Impact Stories

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

Carolina Stories

Researcher putting on a hazmat suit.

5 min read

READDI, not Reactive

Carolina Covenant Scholar Amber Friel poses on the campus of UNC-Chapel Hill.

4 min read

Amber Friel '22: Community Support

Carolina Covenant Scholar Noah Long '20 poses on the campus of UNC-Chapel Hill.

3 min read

Noah Long '20: 'So Much More than Money'

Valentina Arismendi

2 min read

An unconventional path to success

Nikole Hannah-Jones portait

4 min read

Carolina alumni Pulitzer winners spark national conversations

Closeup of machinery in lab.

2 min read

READDI for the future

1 min read

Hussman student named ProPublica Emerging Reporter

2 min read

Social networks in media

Rickie Willis smiles in front of a wood paneled wall.

1 min read

Making and doing good

Chandler Simpson sits on the floor of a room that has sustainable fashion messaging painted on the walls and is looking at a mannequin that is wrapped up in red ribbons with her face marked out with red paint.

4 min read

The fashion of sustainability

Taylor Doggett poses at the Mya Thein Than Pagoda in Min Kun, Myanmar.

4 min read

The pursuit of passion

Andrew Satterlee, Shawn Hingtgen and Alison Mercer-Smith standing in a lab, facing the viewer.

9 min read

Minds meet hearts in the hunt for a cure