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

First-year Radian Hong poses for a sitting portrait outside, with Thomas Wolfe monument in backdrop.

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A green light to write

Blue Sky Scholar Zoey Ainsworth poses for an outdoor portrait.

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Learning with heart

Aerial view of UNC-Chapel Hill campus at night.

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Zietlow Fellows foster community

Students clear debris in western North Carolina after Hurricane Helene. One student stands smiling at the camera while holding a shovel.

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Mentors, mountains and a mission

Portrait of Ariayana Harrell smiling with UNC-Chapel Hill campus in the background.

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The arc of a Covenant Scholar

Portrait of Bella Garcia against textured cream background with thin Carolina blue line.

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Actor and advocate

Dalili sits outside. on the steps of the Bell Tower.

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A beautiful surprise

Segovia-Chumbez wears graduation regalia while sitting on cement wall with "Adams School of Dentistry" sign on it.

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Covenant Scholar’s dentistry path leads back to rural service

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

A person writing a letter.

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The lost art of letters