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

A violinist plays in an auditorium while a person wears a cap with multiple sensors during a brain mapping performance.

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When music meets the mind

Carolina women's soccer team members jump with glee on the soccer field.

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Because of you: 2024 giving highlights

Samantha Meltzer-Brody sits outside at a patio table with a cup of coffee.

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Improving child and adolescent mental health

Dr. Joseph Muenzer with Cathy Bryson and Vaughn Bryson.

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Pioneering care for rare diseases

A doctor performs a sonograph.

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Making ultrasounds universal

Jamiel and Shayne Owens smiling at each other on a city sidewalk

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Bringing Autism Fathers Together

Two scientists look at test tubes

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Fighting Future Pandemics

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

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A new device for saving lives

Student working in a lab.

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A collaborative initiative

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‘Heroes Health’ mental wellness app launched by School of Medicine and UNC Health

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill physician and researcher Elizabeth Stringer

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Where She Needed To Be