Impact Stories

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

Carolina Stories

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

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Top 12 Carolina Stories 2025

Segovia-Chumbez wears graduation regalia while sitting on cement wall with "Adams School of Dentistry" sign on it.

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Covenant Scholar’s dentistry path leads back to rural service

Sharon Lawrence stands outside PlayMakers Repertory Company.

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One-woman show spotlights Sharon Lawrence

Left: Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Gene Roberts ’54; Right: An 1895 woodblock print by Kobayashi Kiyochika

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Top 10 Carolina Stories 2024

Mason Murr in front of Eiffel Tower

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Olympic gold legacy

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World-widening gift takes UNC Hussman student to Spain

Jane Ellison takes her glasses off as she speaks behind a podium. The photo is framed in blue and says 50 Years, Board of Visitors

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Q&A with Jane Ellison: ‘Everyone has something to give’

Alisa Eanes points at an ultrasound

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Carolina Covenant Scholar becomes rural OB-GYN

Dr. Joseph Muenzer with Cathy Bryson and Vaughn Bryson.

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Pioneering care for rare diseases

Dr. David Drewry at the Genetic Medicine Building on the campus of UNC-Chapel Hill .

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Collaborating for a Cure

Spencer Bakalar smiling

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Women who are changing the world

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Legacy for Lisa