Impact Stories

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

Carolina Stories

Students gather and smile in the front of a classroom

3 min read

Hussman students cover their first Winter Games

Students gather around the water fountain in front of Bynum Hall

7 min read

Deans reflect on 2025

Photo collage depicting students and staff volunteering to provide families and children with food resources.

4 min read

Fighting hunger, feeding hope

Richard Saver poses for the camera with the law school building in the background

5 min read

Ask a Professor: Richard Saver on neural implants' intangible risks

Portrait of Olin and Marilyn Setzer Treadway smiling.

4 min read

Planned gift to University Library honors parents

A conceptual rendering of the Argus Array telescope system

6 min read

Developing the world’s largest sky-survey telescope

Charlie Helms walking.

2 min read

Computer scientist and community builder

2 min read

A legacy of impact

UNC Mobile Health Clinic

1 min watch

UNC Health Mobile Health Clinic

A dentist and a patient at a dental office at MAHEC.

4 min read

New partnership ‘a huge public service’

Carolina Covenant Scholar Fidele Mugisha poses on campus at UNC-Chapel Hill.

4 min read

Fidele Mugisha '21: A Winding Path

Carolina Covenant Scholar Amber Friel poses on the campus of UNC-Chapel Hill.

4 min read

Amber Friel '22: Community Support