Impact Stories

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

Carolina Stories

3 min read

Ask a Professor: Katrijn Gielens talks Black Friday

A waist-up portrait of John Moody with the ocean in the background.

3 min read

Keeping Carolina a special place

Five people take a selfie outdoors under a patio umbrella at night.

4 min read

Q&A: Ebon Freeman-James

Katharine deGolian poses with the Old Well in the background.

3 min read

'A community that I'm part of and always will be'

An aerial shot of the Galapagos Science Center with a beach in the foreground

5 min read

Inaugural Kenan Galapagos Fellows launch new research

Karen Jordan calling for the UNC crew team as coxswain.

3 min read

Steering toward sustainability

Lauren Schultes poses for a photo

4 min read

A pitch-perfect career

Tom Kenan ’59 (center) with (from left) Robert Baynard, Lawrence Gray ’86, Interim Chancellor Lee Roberts and Vice Chancellor for Development Mike Andreasen.

3 min read

Carolina honors Tom Kenan for lifetime of giving and service

Mathias Zimba stands with two mothers in front of a home in rural Zambia

3 min read

Meet Mathias Zimba, executive director of Rising Fountains

Hayley Cartee throws sticky notes in the air during a performance of Every Brilliant Thing.

2 min read

‘Every Brilliant Thing’ uses theater to build resilience