Impact Stories

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

Carolina Stories

Portrait of Alexander Tropsha wearing a light blue button down shirt.

4 min read

Ask a Professor: Alexander Tropsha on AI tools for drug discovery

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

6 min read

Electric dialogue

Black and white portrait of Nabarun Dasgupta.

5 min read

The objective? Save lives.

Five people smile for the camera at a ribbon-cutting ceremony under a balloon arch.

3 min read

Celebrating Native presence on campus

Window panels to a conference room with a banner that reads "PNC, Capital Markets Lab."

5 min read

More than a classroom

Jeffrey Stringer sits in a chair and smiles facing the camera with ultrasound images patterned on the wall behind him.

8 min read

AI innovation in obstetrics

Pepper Dowd

4 min read

The Legacy of Pepper Dowd: 50 Years of Philanthropy

Two hands wearing gardening gloves push down on dirt surrounding a small plant.

5 min read

Gardens ‘for students by students’

Alison Axtman stands with arms crossed in a lab, wearing protective glasses, a lab coat and gloves.

3 min read

Big power in small molecules

Portrait of person with short, curly black hair wearing a white top and a white and black patterned shawl.

3 min read

Trading zoning maps for disaster relief work

A man and a woman sit side-by-side in the seats of an auditorium. The man drapes his right arm around the woman while both face the camera.

8 min read

Crafting their story

Marisa Porto sits at a desk wearing a bright blue suit jacket with a black undershirt. She has one hand placed on her laptop and the other around a mug.

3 min read

Ask a Professor: Marisa Porto on AI in the newsroom