Impact Stories

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

Carolina Stories

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

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

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

2 min read

An entrepreneurial spirit

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

2 min read

Telling a missing story

Christian Lentz (center) with friends in Vietnam.

2 min read

Faculty residency bolsters Southeast Asian Studies

Two students work together in the BeAM Makerspace.

2 min read

Collaboration and practice

Charlotte Dorn stands on the coast wearing a U.N.C. hat.

2 min read

Entrepreneurial engineering

Jinsong Huang and Ying Zhou work on the computer.

2 min read

Safe, cost-effective imaging

UNC Makerspace employees taking a RYOBI training via video call.

2 min read

A greater toolkit