{"id":63580,"date":"2024-03-13T12:34:55","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T16:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/psi\/?p=63580"},"modified":"2024-03-14T06:42:07","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T10:42:07","slug":"what-psi-supporters-are-saying-about-day-of-giving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/psi\/news\/what-psi-supporters-are-saying-about-day-of-giving\/","title":{"rendered":"What PSI Supporters Are Saying About Day of Giving"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n

As we approach North Carolina State University\u2019s 2024 Day of Giving<\/a> on Wednesday, March 20, two alumni and a retired staff member who are donors to the N.C. Plant Sciences Initiative shared their thoughts on the initiative and why they chose to be part of the #GivingPack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alan Ayers: \u2018Giving back is the least I can do.\u2019<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen you have stakeholders, industry, government and the university working together, as they do with the Plant Sciences Initiative, nothing\u2019s impossible. I really see the benefits of what they’re doing now with collaborative research and the Center of Excellence for Regulatory Science in Agriculture, or CERSA, and I would really like to see the PSI and NC State become the go-to university as a productive platform where stakeholders can come and sit down and work through issues collectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI’ll will never be able to pay back NC State for all the things they have given me in the way of academic training for a successful career in the agricultural chemical industry, as well as the great business and personal relations I have with CALS and stakeholders. Giving back is the least I can do.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Alan Ayers <\/strong>(B.S. Zoology 1974 and Ph. D. Plant Pathology 1985)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayers, retired executive from the agricultural chemical and biosciences industry, serves as a board member for both the N.C. Agricultural Foundation and N.C. Agricultural and Life Sciences Research Foundation.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n