Impact Stories

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

Carolina Stories

Members of the 1994 UNC women's basketball team hoist up the championship trophy.

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Carolina Champions: Charlotte Smith

Katharine deGolian poses with the Old Well in the background.

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'A community that I'm part of and always will be'

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

3 min read

Student’s research to help endangered coral

Man peers down at his phone in one hand while being surrounded by trees.

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Senior researches cicadas’ impact on local food web

An aerial shot of the Galapagos Science Center with a beach in the foreground

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Inaugural Kenan Galapagos Fellows launch new research

Ben Speas kneeling on the soccer field and pointing skyward in celebration.

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Carolina Champions: Ben Speas

A smiling student sits in the stands at a football game looking out into the horizon.

8 min read

'The audacity to think we could do it'

Candice Williams, Director of the Carolina Covenant

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‘The Next 20 Years and Beyond’

A portrait of Shirley Ort with campus scene in background.

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The Tar Heel behind the Covenant

The three Martinez sisters pose at the twins' graduation

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A family of scholars

Charles Hands and two Covenant students sit at a table laughing.

4 min read

A passion for helping others

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Going beyond degree completion