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

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

LessonPlans

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Pilot program brings West Africa to local classrooms

Waleed Ziad stands outside holding a laptop next to a woman who is setting up a video camera.

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Cataloging with the local community

Cayla Colclasure works with historical documents.

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Tracking history

Camara sits in front of digitized Pulaar manuscripts.

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Preserving Pulaar poetry

Librarian holding the Highlander video tape.

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Fire Fighters

Joey Lancellotti pitching

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Songs of inspiration

Diamond Holloman, a PhD candidate at UNC-Chapel Hill, listens to Malinda Maynor Lowery, co-director of Southern futures at a meeting in a community center in Robeson County.

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The Human Side of Research

Engraving from the Florence Fearrington collection at UNC-Chapel Hill Libraries

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The gift of wonder: Rare book collection coming to Carolina

Vance L. Horner II and Shaida Jarrahi Horner smile for a photo with library bookshelves in the background.

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Extending beyond library walls