Impact Stories

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

Carolina Stories

Photo collage depicting students and staff volunteering to provide families and children with food resources.

4 min read

Fighting hunger, feeding hope

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

A shoulders up portrait of Anne Maheux on a Carolina blue illustrated background.

4 min read

Ask a Professor: Anne Maheux on generative AI use among adolescents

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

Carmichael Lobby dedication

3 min read

UNC coach’s legacy cemented forever

Illustration of three hands each holding a smartphone

4 min read

Carolina research takes the world stage

Student working in lab.

3 min read

Teaching beyond the scope of a classroom

Eric Montross '94

4 min read

Eric Montross ’94 dies of cancer

Karen Shelton stands in Karen Shelton stadium.

9 min read

Lessons beyond the field