Impact Stories

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

Aerial view of UNC-Chapel Hill campus at night.

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Zietlow Fellows foster community

A violinist plays in an auditorium while a person wears a cap with multiple sensors during a brain mapping performance.

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When music meets the mind

A portrait of Kathleen DuVal, smiling, on a cream background with a blue textured circle.

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Professor wins Cundill History Prize

Carolina women's soccer team members jump with glee on the soccer field.

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Because of you: 2024 giving highlights

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

Person holds headphones against ears while peering down at laptop.

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Uplifting Asian and Asian American experiences

A person writing a letter.

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The lost art of letters

Pasuth Thothaveesansuk smiles for a photo on Polk Place, with Wilson Library in the background.

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Telling a missing story

A mosaic shows a tiger chasing an ibex in a decorative border panel in the Huqoq synagogue.

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Archaeological dig in Galilee uncovers mosaics

Bryanna Ledbetter stands in front of the British Museum.

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'The highlight of my college career'

Jim White stands in front of a window with a view of the Old Well on U.N.C. campus.

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Liberal arts for the 21st century