Impact Stories

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

Carolina Stories

A view of the front of Wilson Library looking up.

4 min read

Gift Endows Library Curatorship and Fellowships

Hands using a phone touchscreen

2 min read

Studying technology and teen mental health

An engraving of two indigenous people of North Carolina by Theodor de Bry

4 min read

Michael N. Joyner ’77 Donates Collection of Rare Engravings

Two researchers look at a chart on a computer.

2 min read

Leading opioid safety research

Kenny Jones holding an open pop up book of Alice In Wonderland showing an arch of flying cards and a defensive Alice

1 min read

The magic of 3D

Emily Harmon holding a net while standing on a thigh deep water level lake

1 min read

Plasticity and evolution

Student looking through a glass instrument

1 min read

A fight against time

Cameron working in a lab with instruments in hand

2 min read

Single-cell solutions

Students working with computers and various devices in a lab.

2 min read

Shaping future engineers

Ronit Freeman holds a coronavirus model

2 min read

Developing a sweeter COVID-19 test

Dr. David Drewry at the Genetic Medicine Building on the campus of UNC-Chapel Hill .

9 min read

Collaborating for a Cure

UNC PhD student Riley Vickers stands in front of a pond at Carolina's North Forest.

6 min read

Membranes and Modeling