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Giving Back to the Places That Shaped Them

Fall/Winter 2024

Jenni Mangala wearing a grey NC State t-shirt stands in front of a Rwandan secondary school.

Mar 14, 2025

Lights On

Atop a mountain on an island in Rwanda’s Lake Burera, 60 K-6 Birwa Primary School students are able to study until the evening hours and their teachers are using digital education tools regularly thanks to seven new solar panels generating electricity for the school.
Rhett McLaughlin and Link Neal stand next to a stump from a felled tree with their peanut butter axe embedded in the face of the stump.

Mar 14, 2025

They’re Yelling Timber

Better known as Rhett and Link, the internet duo own Mythical Entertainment and star in two award-winning daily YouTube shows, Good Mythical Morning and Good Mythical More. They recently launched a new show, Rhett & Link’s Wonderhole.
Barbara Pleasant, left, and Dan Pleasant, right, show the NC State wolf sign along with Braydon Boaz, middle.

Mar 6, 2025

Giving Back to the Places That Shaped Them

Dan and Barbara Pleasant established a scholarship for students from Caswell and Person counties. Braydon Boaz, of Caswell County is its first recipient.