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

Shaun Anderson stands in the foreground with the Dean E. Smith Center in the background.

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Ask a Professor: Shaun Anderson on NIL and student-athletes’ growing support for social causes

A shoulders up portrait of Anne Maheux on a Carolina blue illustrated background.

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Ask a Professor: Anne Maheux on generative AI use among adolescents

A man and a woman sit side-by-side in the seats of an auditorium. The man drapes his right arm around the woman while both face the camera.

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Crafting their story

Marisa Porto sits at a desk wearing a bright blue suit jacket with a black undershirt. She has one hand placed on her laptop and the other around a mug.

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Ask a Professor: Marisa Porto on AI in the newsroom

A portrait of Carpentier on a two-toned blue background graphic.

3 min read

Ask a Professor: Francesca Dillman Carpentier on the effect of media messages

Found sitting at a classroom desk.

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Together, we propel the world

Keith Sawyer faces the camera with fun expression and hands in the air; a blackboard with water drop motif is in the background

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Ask a Professor: Keith Sawyer

A portrait of Sarah Dempsey.

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Ask a Professor: Sarah E. Dempsey

Side by side waist-up portraits of Matt Bernacki (left) and Jeff Greene (right).

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Ask a Professor: Jeff Greene and Matt Bernacki

Raul Reis stands in front of a doorway.

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Fostering collaboration and community

Marisa Marraccini smiling for a photograph

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Program to create improved social media resources for adolescent mental health receives C. Felix Harvey Award