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

Portrait of Kathleen Duval reading book against library backdrop.

4 min read

Rewriting early America

Frank Leibfarth smiling in front of an outdoor background.

4 min read

Frank Leibfarth receives Carolina’s first Blavatnik award

Zhukhovitskiy inspects a vial in a laboratory. Background is changed to a Carolina blue color with a white shadow outlining Zhukhovitskiy.

3 min read

Rising star honored

A portrait of Kathleen DuVal, smiling, on a cream background with a blue textured circle.

3 min read

Professor wins Cundill History Prize

Portrait of Professor Blair Kelley on a Carolina blue background

3 min read

Ask a Professor: Blair Kelley on the Black working class

Grace White

5 min read

Expanding the Ackland’s conservation efforts

Jinsong Huang stands in a lab next to a window holding a solar panel

3 min read

Ask a Professor: Jinsong Huang

A portrait of Naomi Andre facing the camera on a gray background

3 min read

Ask a Professor: Naomi André

Alt text: Rhiannon Giddens (Photo by Ebru Yildiz)

6 min read

Advocacy, connection and joy: highlights from Rhiannon Giddens

Giddens and Justin Robinson host a jam session outside of Wilson Library.

13 min read

Up close with Rhiannon Giddens

Three men in hardhats stand in a water treatment plant. The man in the middle is pointing at a piece of equipment.

1 min read

Flowing together