On the Season 3 finale of the NC State Philanthropy Podcast, we’re joined by Krista Ringler, NC State’s associate vice provost and director of Scholarships and Financial Aid, to discuss her office’s work and its importance.

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On this episode of the NC State Philanthropy Podcast, we’re joined by NC State alumna and supporter Gayle Lanier to discuss why giving back to the university is so important to her. Lanier received a bachelor of science degree in industrial engineering from NC State in 1982 and went on to hold key leadership roles in several Fortune 500 companies across multiple industries. She retired in 2018 as senior vice president of Duke Energy.

Throughout her career and now in retirement, Lanier has made giving back to her alma mater, through her time and talent as well as through her finances, a top priority. She and her husband have helped fund scholarships, promote Wolfpack Athletics — the women’s basketball team is particularly near and dear to their hearts — and support various programs and initiatives across the university.

Lanier has also served on a long list of NC State boards and committees, including the Board of Trustees. Recognized as Distinguished Engineering Alumnus of the Year in 2008, Lanier then received the Watauga Medal in 2017. She is currently the chair of the Shelton Leadership Center and of Wolfpack Women in Philanthropy, which work to promote values-based leadership development and to connect women in the NC State community to one another and to opportunities to support the university, respectively.

To learn more about Wolfpack Women in Philanthropy, please visit go.ncsu.edu/wwip. If you’d like to hear even more stories of Wolfpack success, please subscribe to the NC State Philanthropy Podcast today in the Apple or Google podcast stores, on Spotify or through Stitcher. Be sure to leave a comment and rating as well to let us know how we’re doing.

Thanks for listening, and as always, go Pack!

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On this episode of the NC State Philanthropy Podcast, we’re joined by James B. Robertson, a Goodnight Scholar alumnus and current Goodnight Doctoral Fellow, to discuss how private support has enabled him to earn multiple degrees from the College of Sciences.

Robertson has majored in statistics for many years at NC State, first as an undergraduate thanks to the financial assistance provided to him by the Goodnight Scholarships program. Because of this full-ride scholarship opportunity, Robertson was then able to stay on campus and pursue a master’s degree in statistics instead of having to immediately get a job to begin repaying his student debt.

Today, Robertson is back on campus working toward a doctorate in statistics and once again taking part in a program made possible by Dr. Jim and Mrs. Ann Goodnight. The Goodnight Doctoral Fellowship program is an extension of the Goodnight Scholarships program that provides critical funding for NC State’s Ph.D. candidates — an important group of Wolfpack members with unique funding challenges. Thanks to the Goodnights’ ongoing generosity to NC State, the university is closing that financial gap and enabling more and more doctoral students to learn, grow and succeed.

To learn more about how Dr. Jim and Mrs. Ann Goodnight are supporting the Wolfpack, please visit goodnight.ncsu.edu and go.ncsu.edu/goodnightgrad. If you’d like to hear even more stories of Wolfpack success, please subscribe to the NC State Philanthropy Podcast today in the Apple or Google Podcast stores, on Spotify or through Stitcher. Be sure to leave a comment and rating as well to let us know how we’re doing.

Thanks for listening, and as always, go Pack.

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