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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

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

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Exhibit adds splash of 'Color'

Four Morehead-Cain Scholars pose seated on a picnic table with trees and a lake in the background.

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Innovating AI services for the aging

Nathan Townsend stands on a professional baseball field on a sunny day.

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Intern shares analytics model with Japanese baseball team

Two hands wearing gardening gloves push down on dirt surrounding a small plant.

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Gardens ‘for students by students’

Portrait of Jennifer Mulveny facing the left side of the image with a blue circle graphic behind her.

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Adobe executive talks AI policy

Left: Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Gene Roberts ’54; Right: An 1895 woodblock print by Kobayashi Kiyochika

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Top 10 Carolina Stories 2024

Matthew Thornton looks into the distance with the Bell Tower in the background.

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A passion for math leads to a new path

Osman in a suit smiling.

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Empowering humanity through technology

Exterior of the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health.

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Beech Award recognizes Atkinson’s use of data to confront disparities

UNC School of Data Science faculty Alex McAvoy, Santiago Olivella and Harlin Lee.

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A mathematical biologist walks up to a farmer

Five individuals posing in front of sign reading "The Be Loud! Center for Young Adult Cancer Care."

12 min read

Be Loud! Center is elevating cancer care for young adults at UNC