Impact Stories

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

Carolina Stories

Hovaniec

3 min read

‘It Changed Everything’

Kainat Aslam

3 min read

Creating a Pathway

UNC-Chapel Hill Old Well with colorful fall leaves

2 min read

Fortifying Local Economies

drawing of a brain

1 min read

A joint effort

Two scientists look at test tubes

1 min read

Fighting Future Pandemics

Jeremy Wang, assistant professor of genetics in the UNC School of Medicine, in front of lab equipment

7 min read

The power of partnership

Two people stand in outdoor hallway of a building.

2 min read

A convergent code

Patients walk into the University of Zambia School of Medicine Teaching Hospital in Lusaka, Zambia.

8 min read

A new device for saving lives

Sarah Hoffman portrait

4 min read

An advocate for mental health

Sarah Hoffman smiling for a photo.

1 min read

Advocating for mental health

Joey Lancellotti pitching

1 min read

Songs of inspiration

Two women in doula training session.

1 min read

Training Black doulas to serve Black women