Impact Stories

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

Carolina Stories

Patients walk into the University of Zambia School of Medicine Teaching Hospital in Lusaka, Zambia.

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A new device for saving lives

Susan Gravely and Bill Ross gaze at each other on a balcony overlooking the city of Florence.

5 min read

Giving the Gift of Global Education

A screenshot of UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health Humanitarian Health fellows and volunteers.

4 min read

Students on the Frontlines of Humanitarian Health

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What is ‘safe’ sanitation?

A group of Chancellor’s Science Scholars conduct a chemistry experiment in the lab of Dr. David Nicewicz.

1 min read

Supporting the next generation of leaders

Phillips Ambassador T.J. Turner poses with some of his Korean and Japanese friends in Shiba Park with blooming cherry trees in the background.

3 min read

Ambassadors in Asia

A line of university students hike across a ridge in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina.

2 min read

All over the GLOBE

Five Carolina Law students, accompanied by Dean Martin Brinkley and Professor Lissa Broome at the Court of Justice of the European Union in Luxembourg.

2 min read

Gaining Mutual Understanding

Charlie Helms walking.

2 min read

Computer scientist and community builder

Maribel Borger poses on the campus of UNC-Chapel Hill.

3 min read

Helping Others Succeed

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Going to the source

Frank Leibfarth works in lab.

2 min read

Molecule maker