Impact Stories

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

Carolina Stories

Illustration representing the new Institute for Risk Management and Insurance Innovation, which will accelerate research on extreme weather and cybersecurity, featuring illustrations of a woman walking and icons representing markets, cybersecurity and weather

3 min read

Institute translates environmental threats into financial risks

LessonPlans

3 min read

Pilot program brings West Africa to local classrooms

Dan Reuland

3 min read

Reuland Awarded Robert A. Ingram Distinguished Professorship

Five individuals posing in front of sign reading "The Be Loud! Center for Young Adult Cancer Care."

12 min read

Be Loud! Center is elevating cancer care for young adults at UNC

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

6 min read

Restore a watershed, protect an ecosystem

Klaus Hahn

3 min read

Hahn Awarded CZI Grant to Monitor, Manipulate Proteins Important in Nervous System Function, Neurological Disease

Dr. David Drewry at the Genetic Medicine Building on the campus of UNC-Chapel Hill .

9 min read

Collaborating for a Cure

UNC-Chapel Hill Old Well with colorful fall leaves

2 min read

Fortifying Local Economies

Two scientists look at test tubes

1 min read

Fighting Future Pandemics

SECU Foundation members holding check

2 min read

Investing in local leadership

Jason P. Mihalik, PhD, co-director, Matthew A. Gfeller Sport-Related Traumatic Brain Injury Research Center; Terry Rhodes, PhD, dean, College of Arts & Sciences; Dr. James Kelly, executive director, Marcus Institute for Brain Health; Kevin Guskiewicz, PhD, chancellor

7 min read

Treating Traumatic Brain Injury in Veterans

Patients walk into the University of Zambia School of Medicine Teaching Hospital in Lusaka, Zambia.

8 min read

A new device for saving lives