Impact Stories

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

Carolina Stories

A finger skims the page of a 19th-century doctors' notes in a daybook from the Wilson Special Collections Library

5 min read

A match met, a fellowship forever

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

4 min read

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.

1 min watch

When music meets the mind

Left: Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Gene Roberts ’54; Right: An 1895 woodblock print by Kobayashi Kiyochika

4 min read

Top 10 Carolina Stories 2024

Black and white mock up of a vintage printing machine against a blue circular backdrop.

4 min read

10-millionth volume celebrates philanthropy, illuminates printing technology

Picture of Maxine Brown-Davis.

2 min read

Representation and access, today and tomorrow

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

2 min read

Cataloging with the local community

Cayla Colclasure works with historical documents.

2 min read

Tracking history

Camara sits in front of digitized Pulaar manuscripts.

2 min read

Preserving Pulaar poetry

Amanda Henley, head of Digital Research Services, at Davis Library

2 min read

Uncovering the past through digital research

A view of the front of Wilson Library looking up.

4 min read

Gift Endows Library Curatorship and Fellowships

Kenny Jones holding an open pop up book of Alice In Wonderland showing an arch of flying cards and a defensive Alice

1 min read

The magic of 3D