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

4 min read

Top 12 Carolina Stories 2025

Painting sits in a glass box on display with person passing in the background.

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Exhibit adds splash of 'Color'

Sharon Lawrence stands outside PlayMakers Repertory Company.

4 min read

One-woman show spotlights Sharon Lawrence

Craige Parking Deck with artwork that represents Carolina

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Communicating Carolina’s excellence through art

Two students work together in the BeAM Makerspace.

2 min read

Collaboration and practice

UNC Makerspace employees taking a RYOBI training via video call.

2 min read

A greater toolkit

A Rembrandt sketch of a ship.

2 min read

Rare Rembrandts and other Dutch drawings

A student uses a 3D printer.

2 min read

BeAMing up to the cloud

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

Librarian holding the Highlander video tape.

7 min read

Fire Fighters

The Barzin Family

2 min read

‘A place that has given us so much’

Lauren Eaves smiles in front of the Meantime Coffee Co. counter.

2 min read

Organizations as business: Meantime Coffee Co.