Impact Stories

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

Carolina Stories

A close-up view of Stephen Eckel holding his IV dosing device

8 min read

Donor funding bridges innovation ‘valley of death’

Three people pose and smile in a lab.

4 min read

Eyes on the brain

Professor Flavio Frohlich faces the camera seated at a desk wearing tACS head-gear

4 min read

Top 12 Carolina Stories 2025

Frank Leibfarth working in a lab.

4 min read

Supporting Carolina chemists

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

Student working in lab.

3 min read

Teaching beyond the scope of a classroom

Jinsong Huang and Ying Zhou work on the computer.

2 min read

Safe, cost-effective imaging

Portrait of Saravanan Kesavan.

2 min read

Analyzing artificial intelligence

Morehead Science Center.

1 min read

Seeing more stars

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

4 min read

Michael N. Joyner ’77 Donates Collection of Rare Engravings

Students working with computers and various devices in a lab.

2 min read

Shaping future engineers

Chad Pecot stands speaking in lab, while a woman works at a workbench.

1 min read

Muting genetic mutations