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

Kurt Ribisl smiles, facing the camera, with left hand on hip and the Gillings School of Global Public Health lobby blurred in the background.

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Ask a Professor: Kurt M. Ribisl on big vape’s paper trail

Portrait of Kathleen Duval reading book against library backdrop.

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Rewriting early America

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

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Heat mapping for change

Painting sits in a glass box on display with person passing in the background.

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Exhibit adds splash of 'Color'

Portrait of Robert Laidlaw against a backdrop image of the Old Well.

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A lifetime of giving back

Person with short auburn hand stands on the terrace of a building wearing a white collared blouse and black suit jacket.

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Ask a Professor: Maria Savasta-Kennedy on well water safety

Aerial view of UNC-Chapel Hill campus at night.

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Zietlow Fellows foster community

Pepper Dowd

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The Legacy of Pepper Dowd: 50 Years of Philanthropy

A violinist plays in an auditorium while a person wears a cap with multiple sensors during a brain mapping performance.

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When music meets the mind

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

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The arc of a Covenant Scholar