CALS Impact Report 2025
In 2025, donors like you came together to lend their support and empowered us to continue to create unique, memorable, and extraordinary experiences for students, faculty, and staff. You inspire us to continue to do great work.
Purpose Grown Here
Thank you for your continued support of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Your commitment strengthens our shared mission: preparing tomorrow’s workforce, driving resilience through innovative research, and partnering with our communities to deliver solutions across North Carolina and beyond.
In Fiscal Year 2025, your generosity totaled more than $55 million for CALS students, staff, and faculty and for our academic, research, and Extension efforts. Because of donors like you, CALS is on the front lines of advancing technologies that future-proof our food supply and shape the next generation of agriculture and life sciences.
Your support made it possible to award 720 scholarships last year and expand hands-on learning opportunities across all of our degree programs in agriculture and life sciences and new areas such as robotics, sensors, data science, and artificial intelligence. It also helped launch the Genome Editing Center for Sustainable Agriculture, led by Dr. Timothy Kelliher, enabling a major step forward in accelerating innovation. And more progress is ahead. In 2026, we will oen the National Egg Science and Technology Lab (NEST). We will continue to stake a major role in the Integrative Sciences Initiative and in the N.C. Plant Sciences Initiative and the Food Animal Initiative as they join forces to address challenges across the entire agricultural system.
Your impact extends statewide through NC State Extension. Last year alone, your support helped us deliver more than 28,000 education programs. When Hurricane Helene devastated Western North Carolina, our Extension agents were on the ground immediately, activating their networks to provide and distribute critical assistance, and we remain deeply engaged in rebuilding those communities.
Philanthropy at CALS strengthens our community and expands our reach. Because of you, we can continue to empower students, advance groundbreaking research, and champion agriculture and life sciences for the people of North Carolina.
– Dean Garey Fox
2025 Impact Report
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