Impact Stories

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

Carolina Stories

Katharine deGolian poses with the Old Well in the background.

3 min read

'A community that I'm part of and always will be'

Illustration representing the new Institute for Risk Management and Insurance Innovation, which will accelerate research on extreme weather and cybersecurity, featuring illustrations of a woman walking and icons representing markets, cybersecurity and weather

3 min read

Institute translates environmental threats into financial risks

A collage showing the Olympic rings and four students with Parisian icons

8 min read

Ringing in the Summer Olympics

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3 min read

Burch Fellows explore hidden side of Olympic Games

Kat Goodpaster in front of the FedEx Global Education Center.

4 min read

Global Heel: Kat Goodpaster

Navin Banat sits behind a table holding a book.

3 min read

Ask a Professor: Navin Bapat

Lauren Schultes poses for a photo

4 min read

A pitch-perfect career

Graduate Emma Cohn poses in front of the Well.

2 min read

A graduate's journey from Chapel Hill to New Zealand

Mathias Zimba stands with two mothers in front of a home in rural Zambia

3 min read

Meet Mathias Zimba, executive director of Rising Fountains

Nora Elsayed and Hunter Vaughan stand side by side with arms crossed

5 min read

Leading now and into the future

Pasuth Thothaveesansuk smiles for a photo on Polk Place, with Wilson Library in the background.

2 min read

Telling a missing story

Carolina donor Luther Hodges greets recipients of a scholarship created in his name

2 min read

Luther Hodges Scholars program launches this fall