Impact Stories

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

Carolina Stories

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4 min read

A Duty to Make a Difference

Researchers at the Gfeller Center affix an apparatus to a subject's head for concussion research

3 min read

Redefining concussion protocols

Jodi Magness stands in front of images of ancient mosaics.

2 min read

History changing research

admiral Dennis Blair

4 min read

Leader in national intelligence teaching class about 9/11

Izzie Estes smiles for a photo on the beach.

1 min watch

A family trailblazer

Shelley Earp unc Lineberger

8 min read

Advancing Cancer Research and Care Across Carolina and the Globe

Elizabeth Manekin stands surrounded by pottery as she presents to a class.

3 min read

When galleries become classrooms

Chandler Simpson sits on the floor of a room that has sustainable fashion messaging painted on the walls and is looking at a mannequin that is wrapped up in red ribbons with her face marked out with red paint.

4 min read

The fashion of sustainability

Taylor Doggett poses at the Mya Thein Than Pagoda in Min Kun, Myanmar.

4 min read

The pursuit of passion

Andrew Satterlee, Shawn Hingtgen and Alison Mercer-Smith standing in a lab, facing the viewer.

9 min read

Minds meet hearts in the hunt for a cure

Four MacDonald Community Service Scholars pose together smiling, wearing graduation cords.

3 min read

The full circle of philanthropy

Sam Lai smiles with lab supplies in the background.

2 min read

The tools to change the world