Impact Stories

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

Carolina Stories

A finger skims the page of a 19th-century doctors' notes in a daybook from the Wilson Special Collections Library

5 min read

A match met, a fellowship forever

Three people pose and smile in a lab.

4 min read

Eyes on the brain

Portrait of a man with glasses and short hair wearing a black suit.

4 min read

Ask a Professor: Jan-Benedict Steenkamp on the history of leaders

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

4 min read

Top 12 Carolina Stories 2025

RJ and Rameses point at the camera in a campus food pantry, with jars of peanut butter in the foreground.

4 min read

When competition feeds a cause

Frank Leibfarth working in a lab.

4 min read

Supporting Carolina chemists

Two hands wearing gardening gloves push down on dirt surrounding a small plant.

5 min read

Gardens ‘for students by students’

A group of SILS master's students take a photo on their career trek to Washington, D.C.

4 min read

New connections and careers

A portrait of Shirley Ort with campus scene in background.

3 min read

The Tar Heel behind the Covenant

Keith Sawyer faces the camera with fun expression and hands in the air; a blackboard with water drop motif is in the background

4 min read

Ask a Professor: Keith Sawyer

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4 min read

Desirée Rieckenberg lifts students in need

Tora Taylor-Glover sits facing the camera at a patio table outdoors.

7 min read

Care when and where you need it