Impact Stories

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

Carolina Stories

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4 min read

Going beyond degree completion

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

4 min read

Ask a Professor: Keith Sawyer

Sydney Young standing in a breezeway.

2 min read

Affirmation and gratitude

A closeup of fingers holding a small fish in a clear plastic sample box

9 min read

From riverbanks to labs

Mason Murr in front of Eiffel Tower

5 min read

Olympic gold legacy

A collage showing the Olympic rings and four students with Parisian icons

8 min read

Ringing in the Summer Olympics

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

3 min read

Ask a Professor: Jinsong Huang

Lindsey Smith Taillie by cereal

7 min read

A spoonful of policy

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5 min read

World-widening gift takes UNC Hussman student to Spain

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4 min read

Desirée Rieckenberg lifts students in need

Joe Spencer holds a certificate for a perfect sanitation rating beside his hot dog stand.

4 min read

Blue skies, red dogs and all the toppings

Dan Reuland

3 min read

Reuland Awarded Robert A. Ingram Distinguished Professorship