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

A group of SILS master's students take a photo on their career trek to Washington, D.C.

4 min read

New connections and careers

Left: Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Gene Roberts ’54; Right: An 1895 woodblock print by Kobayashi Kiyochika

4 min read

Top 10 Carolina Stories 2024

Mikayah Locklear poses sitting on the ground outside

4 min read

Committed to her roots

Ruitian Yan leans against a railing facing the camera outdoors.

2 min read

Community-based climate research

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

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

Roy Smith and his wife pose in front of a lake alongside a portrait of Roy when he was a college student.

1 min read

A world of possibility and promise

Bryn Barker and DJ Passey hold hands with their twin boys on a beach.

4 min read

Dissertations and Diapers