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

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

4 min read

Top 12 Carolina Stories 2025

A group of faculty and students stand on the shoreline in the Galapagos with a supine seal in the foreground.

6 min read

A royal first year

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 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

UNC Makerspace employees taking a RYOBI training via video call.

2 min read

A greater toolkit

Two students work in a field.

2 min read

Crouching researcher, hidden sparrow

Kelli Smith-Biwer in the Beat Lab. (Photo by Jess Abel)

1 min read

Meet the inaugural Arts Everywhere Graduate Fellow in Music Technology

Hovaniec

3 min read

‘It Changed Everything’

UNC PhD student Riley Vickers stands in front of a pond at Carolina's North Forest.

6 min read

Membranes and Modeling

Kainat Aslam

3 min read

Creating a Pathway

A Carolina student faces a crowd at a commencement ceremony.

6 min read

Preparing graduate students for the future of work outside academia