Impact Stories

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

Carolina Stories

Travis Williams speaks with a patient at MAHEC Family Medical Center

3 min read

Going Where They Are Needed Most

The music room at NC Children's Hospital with a view of Carolina water tower.

2 min read

Bringing music to pediatric therapies

Jamiel and Shayne Owens smiling at each other on a city sidewalk

4 min read

Bringing Autism Fathers Together

Portrait of Whitney Nobel standing in front of the Old Well

4 min read

Stepping Ahead

Jason P. Mihalik, PhD, co-director, Matthew A. Gfeller Sport-Related Traumatic Brain Injury Research Center; Terry Rhodes, PhD, dean, College of Arts & Sciences; Dr. James Kelly, executive director, Marcus Institute for Brain Health; Kevin Guskiewicz, PhD, chancellor

7 min read

Treating Traumatic Brain Injury in Veterans

Joey Lancellotti pitching

1 min read

Songs of inspiration

Two women in doula training session.

1 min read

Training Black doulas to serve Black women

Nurse-patient interaction.

1 min read

Adapting health care

UNC Mobile Health Clinic

1 min watch

UNC Health Mobile Health Clinic

A dentist and a patient at a dental office at MAHEC.

4 min read

New partnership ‘a huge public service’

Sign unveiling the new name of the UNC School of Dentistry. It reads "UNC Adams School of Dentistry."

7 min read

Four Premier Dental Schools Form Global Alliance

Motion blurred image of patient on stretcher being brought into a hospital." Project Lazarus link opening in same window.

2 min read

No quick fixes