Impact Stories

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

Carolina Stories

Hooper Schultz stands on campus at UNC

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Sharing Southern stories

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

Cayla Colclasure works with historical documents.

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Tracking history

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

Portrait of Bramwell sitting on a bench smiling

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Reshaping pieces of history

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

Diamond Holloman, a PhD candidate at UNC-Chapel Hill, listens to Malinda Maynor Lowery, co-director of Southern futures at a meeting in a community center in Robeson County.

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The Human Side of Research

Jacqueline Lawton sits at a desk.

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Leading by example

Engraving from the Florence Fearrington collection at UNC-Chapel Hill Libraries

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The gift of wonder: Rare book collection coming to Carolina