Impact Stories

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

Carolina Stories

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3 min read

Ask a Professor: Jason Surratt on potential air pollution from harmful algal blooms

Students gather and smile in the front of a classroom

3 min read

Hussman students cover their first Winter Games

Students gather around the water fountain in front of Bynum Hall

7 min read

Deans reflect on 2025

Photo collage depicting students and staff volunteering to provide families and children with food resources.

4 min read

Fighting hunger, feeding hope

Professor Flavio Frohlich faces the camera seated at a desk wearing tACS head-gear

4 min read

Top 12 Carolina Stories 2025

Kurt Ribisl smiles, facing the camera, with left hand on hip and the Gillings School of Global Public Health lobby blurred in the background.

3 min read

Ask a Professor: Kurt M. Ribisl on big vape’s paper trail

Nabarun Dasgupta stands smiling with arms crossed with a colorful artwork in the background.

7 min read

Nabarun Dasgupta wins MacArthur ‘genius grant’

Shaun Anderson stands in the foreground with the Dean E. Smith Center in the background.

3 min read

Ask a Professor: Shaun Anderson on NIL and student-athletes’ growing support for social causes

Black and white portrait of Nabarun Dasgupta.

5 min read

The objective? Save lives.

Jeffrey Stringer sits in a chair and smiles facing the camera with ultrasound images patterned on the wall behind him.

8 min read

AI innovation in obstetrics

Marisa Porto sits at a desk wearing a bright blue suit jacket with a black undershirt. She has one hand placed on her laptop and the other around a mug.

3 min read

Ask a Professor: Marisa Porto on AI in the newsroom

Portrait of Heather Wasser with a blue background.

3 min read

Applying global research to local disasters