Impact Stories

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

Carolina Stories

Three people pose and smile in a lab.

4 min read

Eyes on the brain

Professor Flavio Frohlich faces the camera seated at a desk wearing tACS head-gear

4 min read

Top 12 Carolina Stories 2025

Portrait of Sarah McGlothlin against blue and yellow squiggle graphic.

3 min read

A journey beyond Darwin

Three people stand next to the Galapagos Science Center sign in the Galapagos.

6 min read

A world of support

Carolina women's soccer team members jump with glee on the soccer field.

4 min read

Because of you: 2024 giving highlights

Shelley Belk and Van Eure smiling in front of the Angus Barn restaurant.

7 min read

Forty years of hope

An aerial shot of the Galapagos Science Center with a beach in the foreground

5 min read

Inaugural Kenan Galapagos Fellows launch new research

Exterior of the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health.

4 min read

Beech Award recognizes Atkinson’s use of data to confront disparities

A sea lion is perched on a rock underwater with his head pointing up above the waterline

6 min read

Kenan Galapagos Fellows Program launches fall 2024

Nikin and Rashmi Shah with their three children in front of a UNC sign.

4 min read

A Family’s Legacy of Education and Curiosity

Heart graphic

3 min read

How to heal a broken heart

Forte stands holding a certificate recognizing her accomplishment of Outstanding Doctoral Student of the Year.

2 min read

Future in good hands