Impact Stories

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

Carolina Stories

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

Person in military uniform kneels down in field to handle drone equipment.

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Military grad student up for promotion

Portrait of person with short, curly black hair wearing a white top and a white and black patterned shawl.

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Trading zoning maps for disaster relief work

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

South Building at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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In SCiLL pilot, students to exercise free expression, civil discourse

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

Jed Atkins in front of the Old Well

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Meet Jed Atkins, SCiLL director and dean