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

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

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

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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

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Applying global research to local disasters

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Ask a Professor: Julia Rager on urban wildfire risks

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

Gregory Characklis sits at a table with one leg crossed and a map in the background.

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Ask a Professor: Gregory Characklis on risk management

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

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Ask a Professor: Jinsong Huang