I am hoping to assist our UW Madison group with updating microscopy.wisc.edu and also loci.wisc.edu with a new theme. We use Drupal6 and are in the process of trying out migrations with Drupal7 and Drupal8 now. I really like the carousel on the Yale School of Management's website because it is integrated with the kind of web content I create daily: news, profiles, and speaker events so that when I would update something in the site it would appear on the front in a clean way. http://som.yale.edu/
The Yale site is Wordpress CMS, but is it too much to hope for an out-of-the-box theme and/or module that could make something like the Yale carousel that runs on Drupal8? We are looking into Zurb Foundation, but it doesn't seem to by quite 8 ready.