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

Frank Leibfarth working in a lab.

4 min read

Supporting Carolina chemists

Deshpande sitting in front of a tree

6 min read

Solving supply chain challenges

A woman negotiates in a conference room.

2 min read

Negotiating with stereotypes

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

1 min read

The Quantum Many-Body Problem

Portrait of Saravanan Kesavan.

2 min read

Analyzing artificial intelligence

Two students work in a field.

2 min read

Crouching researcher, hidden sparrow

Graphic shows two hands touching index fingers, one hand is solid blue and the other hand is made out of a webbed network design.

1 min read

Analyzing AI

Sheila Kannappan and Mugdha Polimera

2 min read

Finding hidden black holes

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

1 min read

A life prioritizing education

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

1 min read

Plasticity and evolution

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

6 min read

Membranes and Modeling