Impact Stories

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

Carolina Stories

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

Three men in hardhats stand in a water treatment plant. The man in the middle is pointing at a piece of equipment.

1 min read

Flowing together

Ruitian Yan leans against a railing facing the camera outdoors.

2 min read

Community-based climate research

KC Hysmith sits at the Sutton's counter wearing her doctoral regalia.

2 min read

Family and food

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

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

Sheila Kannappan and Mugdha Polimera

2 min read

Finding hidden black holes

Emily Harmon holding a net while standing on a thigh deep water level lake

1 min read

Plasticity and evolution