Impact Stories

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

Carolina Stories

Ricky May, third from left, with previous Carolina Blue Honors Fellows.

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Expanding fellowship efforts

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.

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Giving the Gift of Global Education

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

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Students on the Frontlines of Humanitarian Health

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What is ‘safe’ sanitation?

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

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Ambassadors in Asia

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

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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.

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Gaining Mutual Understanding

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

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Studying abroad, serving others

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

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An opportunity to go home

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

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Small town reared, international bound

Danny Hage holds up a framed world map.

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A transformational experience