Impact Stories

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

Carolina Stories

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

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Innovating AI services for the aging

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

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Intern shares analytics model with Japanese baseball team

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Tar Heels connect through Carolina College Advising Corps

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

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

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A passion for math leads to a new path

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

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

Osman in a suit smiling.

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Empowering humanity through technology

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Going beyond degree completion

A closeup of fingers holding a small fish in a clear plastic sample box

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From riverbanks to labs

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

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Ringing in the Summer Olympics

Kat Goodpaster in front of the FedEx Global Education Center.

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Global Heel: Kat Goodpaster