Impact Stories

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

Carolina Stories

Patrick Davison, Aayas Joshi and Keya Mahajan stand on a cliff overlooking the ocean on a cloudy day in Hawaii.

5 min read

Beyond the Well: A journalism education with a global perspective

13 Diplomacy Lab students in business attire pose for a group photo with Professor Neil Gaikwad

6 min read

UNC-Chapel Hill students help shape U.S. foreign policy

Students gather and smile in the front of a classroom

3 min read

Hussman students cover their first Winter Games

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

4 min read

Top 12 Carolina Stories 2025

1 min read

Morehead-Cain's new global impact

Mina Bayraktar stands in front of the doors of Grand National Assembly of Turkey.

6 min read

Beyond the Well: Reaching out, returning home

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

8 min read

Ringing in the Summer Olympics

Kat Goodpaster in front of the FedEx Global Education Center.

4 min read

Global Heel: Kat Goodpaster

Student working in lab.

3 min read

Teaching beyond the scope of a classroom

Maggie Ambrose faces the camera with sand and sea behind her

3 min read

Making the most of Carolina’s makerspaces

Two students work together in the BeAM Makerspace.

2 min read

Collaboration and practice

Portrait of Eleanor Murray in front of flowers.

2 min read

Connecting daydreaming with diplomacy