Impact Stories

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

Carolina Stories

Portrait of Olin and Marilyn Setzer Treadway smiling.

4 min read

Planned gift to University Library honors parents

Portrait of Jennifer Mulveny facing the left side of the image with a blue circle graphic behind her.

3 min read

Adobe executive talks AI policy

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

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

4 min read

Q&A: Ebon Freeman-James

Osman in a suit smiling.

3 min read

Empowering humanity through technology

UNC School of Data Science faculty Alex McAvoy, Santiago Olivella and Harlin Lee.

9 min read

A mathematical biologist walks up to a farmer

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

UNC School of Social Work Dean Ramona Denby-Brinson.

2 min read

Addressing kinship care

School of data science members Alex McAvoy, Harlin Lee and Santiago Olivella pose in a hallway.

3 min read

Data science jokes and recs

Ilana Shtivelman in front of the UNC Veterans Resource Center.

1 min read

Serving veterans through social work