Impact Stories

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

Carolina Stories

Jane Ellison takes her glasses off as she speaks behind a podium. The photo is framed in blue and says 50 Years, Board of Visitors

4 min read

Q&A with Jane Ellison: ‘Everyone has something to give’

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

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

Craige Parking Deck with artwork that represents Carolina

2 min read

Communicating Carolina’s excellence through art

Alisa Eanes points at an ultrasound

2 min read

Carolina Covenant Scholar becomes rural OB-GYN

Veteran Matty Colon pets a horse

1 min watch

Helping veterans THRIVE: Matty Colón’s story

Blue Sky Scholar Heather Norland poses in front of the Old Well

2 min read

She sees a future in optometry

Fellows from Southern Futures Undergraduate Fellows.

9 min read

Southern voices, future leaders

Sonny Griffith sits at a table in Wilson Library while typing on a laptop while looking at the camera.

3 min read

Following the narrative

UNC School of Social Work Dean Ramona Denby-Brinson.

2 min read

Addressing kinship care

UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy building.

2 min read

Sustainable rural care