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

Portrait of Heather Wasser with a blue background.

3 min read

Applying global research to local disasters

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4 min read

Ask a Professor: Julia Rager on urban wildfire risks

Gregory Characklis sits at a table with one leg crossed and a map in the background.

4 min read

Ask a Professor: Gregory Characklis on risk management

Illustration representing the new Institute for Risk Management and Insurance Innovation, which will accelerate research on extreme weather and cybersecurity, featuring illustrations of a woman walking and icons representing markets, cybersecurity and weather

3 min read

Institute translates environmental threats into financial risks

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

Rebecca Fry stands in her lab.

3 min read

Angling for solutions

Portrait of Greg Characklis.

2 min read

Uncovering secondary damage

UNC PhD student Riley Vickers stands in front of a pond at Carolina's North Forest.

6 min read

Membranes and Modeling

Joe Brown poses in the foreground of a lab.

4 min read

A Human Right

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7 min read

Where the Water Will Rise

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6 min read

What is ‘safe’ sanitation?