Impact Stories

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

Carolina Stories

Good Bowls meal with branded boxes behind.

4 min read

These healthy, affordable meals taste great

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

Lindsey Smith Taillie by cereal

7 min read

A spoonful of policy

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

Professor Ibrahim smiling at the camera in the lobby of Gillings on U.N.C. campus.

8 min read

Biostatistics: More than just numbers

Portrait of Morris Weinberger

2 min read

Tireless service to the state

Rebecca Fry stands in her lab.

3 min read

Angling for solutions

Portrait of Dean Nancy Messonnier.

2 min read

Global health grounded in community

Portrait of Greg Characklis.

2 min read

Uncovering secondary damage

Elderly women participate in an exercise class

2 min read

Moving toward better cognition

Portrait of Dean Nancy Messonnier.

2 min read

Honored for advancement of medical sciences