Impact Stories

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

Carolina Stories

Patrick Davison, Aayas Joshi and Keya Mahajan stand on a cliff overlooking the ocean on a cloudy day in Hawaii.

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Beyond the Well: A journalism education with a global perspective

13 Diplomacy Lab students in business attire pose for a group photo with Professor Neil Gaikwad

6 min read

UNC-Chapel Hill students help shape U.S. foreign policy

Students gather and smile in the front of a classroom

3 min read

Hussman students cover their first Winter Games

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

4 min read

Top 12 Carolina Stories 2025

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Morehead-Cain's new global impact

Four Morehead-Cain Scholars pose seated on a picnic table with trees and a lake in the background.

2 min read

Innovating AI services for the aging

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

6 min read

Beyond the Well: Reaching out, returning home

Nathan Townsend stands on a professional baseball field on a sunny day.

4 min read

Intern shares analytics model with Japanese baseball team

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

4 min read

Top 10 Carolina Stories 2024

Matthew Thornton looks into the distance with the Bell Tower in the background.

2 min read

A passion for math leads to a new path

Osman in a suit smiling.

3 min read

Empowering humanity through technology

A collage showing the Olympic rings and four students with Parisian icons

8 min read

Ringing in the Summer Olympics