Impact Stories

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

Carolina Stories

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A prestigious professorship

Chad Pecot stands speaking in lab, while a woman works at a workbench.

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Muting genetic mutations

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.

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The Human Side of Research

A photo of Nancy and Bill Graham with Lisa Carey, MD, FASCO.

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Grateful patient and husband establish breast cancer research fund

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

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The gift of wonder: Rare book collection coming to Carolina

Vance L. Horner II and Shaida Jarrahi Horner smile for a photo with library bookshelves in the background.

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Extending beyond library walls

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Advancing Cancer Research and Care Across Carolina and the Globe

David Hesmer smiles in the Hingtgen lab.

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From cancer patient to volunteer

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One million scans and counting

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Documenting The South

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Digitizing the lifetime record of an ‘everyday scientist’

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Best investment I’ve ever made