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

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

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

Student working in lab.

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Teaching beyond the scope of a classroom

Maggie Ambrose faces the camera with sand and sea behind her

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Making the most of Carolina’s makerspaces

Louise Hoff taking on skateboard

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Skateboarding and public health provide a transformative journey at Carolina

Carolina Covenant Scholar Nya Smythe faces the camera with the Old Well at UNC-Chapel Hill in the background

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Cultivating community

Fellows from Southern Futures Undergraduate Fellows.

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Southern voices, future leaders