Impact Stories

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

Carolina Stories

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Ask a Professor: Jason Surratt on potential air pollution from harmful algal blooms

Professor Flavio Frohlich faces the camera seated at a desk wearing tACS head-gear

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Top 12 Carolina Stories 2025

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Rewriting early America

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Ask a Professor: Maria Savasta-Kennedy on well water safety

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Applying global research to local disasters

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Ask a Professor: Julia Rager on urban wildfire risks

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

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Professor wins Cundill History Prize

Portrait of Professor Blair Kelley on a Carolina blue background

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Ask a Professor: Blair Kelley on the Black working class

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Ask a Professor: Gregory Characklis on risk management

Grace White

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Expanding the Ackland’s conservation efforts

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

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Ask a Professor: Jinsong Huang

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Ask a Professor: Naomi André