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

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

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

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

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

Waleed Ziad stands outside holding a laptop next to a woman who is setting up a video camera.

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Cataloging with the local community

Student digs at the Huqoq site.

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Good golly, Galilee

Camara sits in front of digitized Pulaar manuscripts.

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Preserving Pulaar poetry

An engraving of two indigenous people of North Carolina by Theodor de Bry

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Michael N. Joyner ’77 Donates Collection of Rare Engravings

Librarian holding the Highlander video tape.

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Fire Fighters

Christine Mikeska and Ben Arbuckle with an assemblage of bones from an archaeological dig.

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Analyzing Ancient Animal Remains