Impact Stories

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

Carolina Stories

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill physician and researcher Elizabeth Stringer

7 min read

Where She Needed To Be

Tianzhen Nie with arms outstretched standing on an overlook with the city and coastline in the background.

1 min read

Studying abroad, serving others

Angum Check smiles and leans against a white railing with trees in the background

2 min read

An opportunity to go home

Elarnta Darden smiles and leans against a white railing with trees in the background.

2 min read

Small town reared, international bound

Danny Hage holds up a framed world map.

2 min read

A transformational experience

Jacob Stocks smiles in front of the UNC Campus Y building.

1 min read

Ready to experience the world

Danny Peralta talks to a man in a campus makerspace.

2 min read

Carolina works

Woman leans on the rail of a tiny house.

1 min read

A community of tiny houses

Brian-Murdock-wife-mom

4 min read

Murdock family supports students serving communities

Diamonde Henderson smiling outdoors in Prague on the left, and Johnathan Robertson portrait on the right.

3 min read

Dreamers-Who-Do: Innovate Carolina program sends student entrepreneurs to Europe

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1 min read

Oh the humanities!

wellons

2 min read

A defining moment