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

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

Ben Speas kneeling on the soccer field and pointing skyward in celebration.

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Carolina Champions: Ben Speas

Rada Petric sits on a rock at a campsite with her hands resting on a hiking backpack. A white dog is in the background.

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Join the BatPack to help conserve bats

A harvest mouse perches on a branch of blackberries.

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A field guide to small animals

Four people stand along a creek, one person is pointing at the water

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Restore a watershed, protect an ecosystem

Rada Petric releases a bat at night - the bat is in the foreground flying toward the camera

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Ask a Professor: Rada Petric

Carmichael Lobby dedication

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UNC coach’s legacy cemented forever

Eric Montross '94

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Eric Montross ’94 dies of cancer

Karen Shelton stands in Karen Shelton stadium.

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Lessons beyond the field

A field mouse in a blue gloved hand.

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Measuring mitigation

50 Years of Carolina Women's Athletics graphic

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Celebrating 50 years