Impact Stories

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

Carolina Stories

Three people pose and smile in a lab.

4 min read

Eyes on the brain

Portrait of a man with glasses and short hair wearing a black suit.

4 min read

Ask a Professor: Jan-Benedict Steenkamp on the history of leaders

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

4 min read

Top 12 Carolina Stories 2025

RJ and Rameses point at the camera in a campus food pantry, with jars of peanut butter in the foreground.

4 min read

When competition feeds a cause

Shaun Anderson stands in the foreground with the Dean E. Smith Center in the background.

3 min read

Ask a Professor: Shaun Anderson on NIL and student-athletes’ growing support for social causes

Frank Leibfarth working in a lab.

4 min read

Supporting Carolina chemists

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

4 min read

Top 10 Carolina Stories 2024

Ben Speas kneeling on the soccer field and pointing skyward in celebration.

7 min read

Carolina Champions: Ben Speas

Keith Sawyer faces the camera with fun expression and hands in the air; a blackboard with water drop motif is in the background

4 min read

Ask a Professor: Keith Sawyer

Carmichael Lobby dedication

3 min read

UNC coach’s legacy cemented forever

AI-generated image of Rameses wearing a red, white and blue outfit and hat, in front of a stylized American flag

5 min read

Celebrating a presidential day

Eric Montross '94

4 min read

Eric Montross ’94 dies of cancer