Impact Stories

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

Carolina Stories

A portrait of Carpentier on a two-toned blue background graphic.

3 min read

Ask a Professor: Francesca Dillman Carpentier on the effect of media messages

Sharon Lawrence stands outside PlayMakers Repertory Company.

4 min read

One-woman show spotlights Sharon Lawrence

Carolina women's soccer team members jump with glee on the soccer field.

4 min read

Because of you: 2024 giving highlights

UNC wrestler T.J. Jaworsky holding an opponent by the leg during a match.

5 min read

Carolina Champion: T.J. Jaworsky

Left: Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Gene Roberts ’54; Right: An 1895 woodblock print by Kobayashi Kiyochika

4 min read

Top 10 Carolina Stories 2024

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

9 min read

Collaborating for a Cure

UNC student Jamison Kline wearing a graduation shawl.

3 min read

‘A Weight Lifted’

Hovaniec

3 min read

‘It Changed Everything’

Jessica_Jones

2 min read

‘The Best Gift I Ever Received’

Rick Margerison and his wife Leah

4 min read

The Power of a Scholarship

UNC PhD student Riley Vickers stands in front of a pond at Carolina's North Forest.

6 min read

Membranes and Modeling

Bryn Barker and DJ Passey hold hands with their twin boys on a beach.

4 min read

Dissertations and Diapers