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 group of faculty and students stand on the shoreline in the Galapagos with a supine seal in the foreground.

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A royal first year

Portrait of Sarah McGlothlin against blue and yellow squiggle graphic.

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A journey beyond Darwin

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Heat mapping for change

A selfie of Chloe with the western North Carolina mountains in fall in the background

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Inspiring future scientists

Mina Bayraktar stands in front of the doors of Grand National Assembly of Turkey.

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Beyond the Well: Reaching out, returning home

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This Royster studies oysters

Portrait of Rymer in front of the UNC School of Education.

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Bridging access

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

Senior Rachel Geyer is researching why some corals grow more complex skeletons and how that might make them more resilient.

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Student’s research to help endangered coral