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

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A match met, a fellowship forever

Portrait of Olin and Marilyn Setzer Treadway smiling.

4 min read

Planned gift to University Library honors parents

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

4 min read

Top 12 Carolina Stories 2025

1 min read

Morehead-Cain's new global impact

Jayne Davis and Jennie Ergott stand side by side with hands on hips in Davis Library.

2 min read

Invaluable resources lead to student success

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

2 min read

Innovating AI services for the aging

A violinist plays in an auditorium while a person wears a cap with multiple sensors during a brain mapping performance.

1 min watch

When music meets the mind

Dr. Frederick Bowman Jr. sits in a lounge chair at his home in Chapel Hill.

4 min read

A lifetime of giving

Left: Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Gene Roberts ’54; Right: An 1895 woodblock print by Kobayashi Kiyochika

4 min read

Top 10 Carolina Stories 2024

Black and white mock up of a vintage printing machine against a blue circular backdrop.

4 min read

10-millionth volume celebrates philanthropy, illuminates printing technology

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3 min read

Pilot program brings West Africa to local classrooms

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3 min read

Carolina’s libraries connect a dad and daughter