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

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Morehead-Cain's new global impact

Four Morehead-Cain Scholars pose seated on a picnic table with trees and a lake in the background.

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Innovating AI services for the aging

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

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Because of you: 2024 giving highlights

A person writing a letter.

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The lost art of letters

Charlotte Dorn stands on the coast wearing a U.N.C. hat.

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Entrepreneurial engineering

Morehead-Cain Scholar Kendall Leigh stands in front of a dining table at a sushi restaurant.

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A Cornerstone of Excellence

Painting at the Ackland Art Museum

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Teaching while learning — the student guide experience

Morehead-Cain scholar Sarah Mackenzie sits atop a camel in Petra, Jordan.

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Saying 'Yes' To Opportunities

Chandler Simpson sits on the floor of a room that has sustainable fashion messaging painted on the walls and is looking at a mannequin that is wrapped up in red ribbons with her face marked out with red paint.

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The fashion of sustainability

Malik Jabati smiles in front of the Old Well.

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Finding an intellectually stimulating environment

Katie Melville and Marvin Eargle stand outdoors smiling with arms linked.

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Generosity across generations