Impact Stories

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

Carolina Stories

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

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Top 12 Carolina Stories 2025

Portrait of Rymer in front of the UNC School of Education.

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Bridging access

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

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Top 10 Carolina Stories 2024

Keith Sawyer faces the camera with fun expression and hands in the air; a blackboard with water drop motif is in the background

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Ask a Professor: Keith Sawyer

Side by side waist-up portraits of Matt Bernacki (left) and Jeff Greene (right).

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Ask a Professor: Jeff Greene and Matt Bernacki

Student working in lab.

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Teaching beyond the scope of a classroom

Person smiling making coffee.

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Research leading to less loneliness

Portrait of Daniel Johnson in front of a black background.

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Active-duty journalism

Marisa Marraccini smiling for a photograph

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Program to create improved social media resources for adolescent mental health receives C. Felix Harvey Award

Keith Sawyer sits in front of Peabody Hall with an assortment of trinkets and toys.

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Learning the creative process

Researchers stand in front of a screen that displays social media posts

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Democracy in the digital age

A portrait of Dorothy Espelage.

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International forums and worldwide problems