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

6 min read

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

3 min read

Heat mapping for change

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

4 min read

Because of you: 2024 giving highlights

An aerial shot of the Galapagos Science Center with a beach in the foreground

5 min read

Inaugural Kenan Galapagos Fellows launch new research

Ruitian Yan leans against a railing facing the camera outdoors.

2 min read

Community-based climate research

Amy Kryston sits in front of her computer, running data.

1 min read

Studying septic systems

Doctoral student Kaitlyn Morrell poses in front of a blackboard that shows physics equations.

1 min read

The Quantum Many-Body Problem

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2 min read

Jumping into Research

Two students work in a field.

2 min read

Crouching researcher, hidden sparrow

This year's class of Weiss Fellows stand on the steps of the Graduate Center

2 min read

Weiss Urban Livability Fellows

Portrait of Alex Acosta

4 min read

‘Where I’m Meant to Be’

A side-by-side image showing Frank Ivy Carroll as a young man and in 2022.

1 min read

A life prioritizing education