Impact Stories

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

Carolina Stories

Portrait of Rymer in front of the UNC School of Education.

5 min read

Bridging access

Madison Sturdivant in her classroom.

3 min read

A teacher toolkit, unboxed!

Found sitting at a classroom desk.

5 min read

Together, we propel the world

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

LessonPlans

3 min read

Pilot program brings West Africa to local classrooms

Joe Spencer holds a certificate for a perfect sanitation rating beside his hot dog stand.

4 min read

Blue skies, red dogs and all the toppings

Side by side waist-up portraits of Matt Bernacki (left) and Jeff Greene (right).

4 min read

Ask a Professor: Jeff Greene and Matt Bernacki

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

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

Former Blue Sky Scholar Delancy Allred sits at the teacher's desk in a classroom

1 min read

A career launched

Andres Valdiri gives a presentation wearing a suit and tie shown from the waist up

2 min read

An entrepreneurial spirit