Impact Stories

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

Carolina Stories

2 min read

Continuous conservation

Camara sits in front of digitized Pulaar manuscripts.

2 min read

Preserving Pulaar poetry

Amanda Henley, head of Digital Research Services, at Davis Library

2 min read

Uncovering the past through digital research

A view of the front of Wilson Library looking up.

4 min read

Gift Endows Library Curatorship and Fellowships

Kenny Jones holding an open pop up book of Alice In Wonderland showing an arch of flying cards and a defensive Alice

1 min read

The magic of 3D

Student looking through a glass instrument

1 min read

A fight against time

Librarian holding the Highlander video tape.

7 min read

Fire Fighters

Daniel Bowen (right) meets with Ross Tompkins, assistant to the town manager, to discuss Chapel Hill's sustainability initiative.

2 min read

Giving back to the community

1 min read

Uplifting a community

Purshotam Aruwani sitting at a desk with a computer and monitor.

1 min read

A summer in public safety

Diamond Holloman, a PhD candidate at UNC-Chapel Hill, listens to Malinda Maynor Lowery, co-director of Southern futures at a meeting in a community center in Robeson County.

2 min read

The Human Side of Research

Engraving from the Florence Fearrington collection at UNC-Chapel Hill Libraries

4 min read

The gift of wonder: Rare book collection coming to Carolina