Impact Stories

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

Carolina Stories

Jessica Redmond

2 min read

The Carolina Covenant comes full circle

admiral Dennis Blair

4 min read

Leader in national intelligence teaching class about 9/11

Terry Long holds up a petri dish containing small green plants.

1 min read

Farm to lab

Rickie Willis smiles in front of a wood paneled wall.

1 min read

Making and doing good

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

UNC medical student Travis Wliiams

6 min read

Going Where The Need Is Greatest

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

3 min read

When galleries become classrooms

David Hesmer smiles in the Hingtgen lab.

2 min read

From cancer patient to volunteer

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