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Arts enthusiast Laura Young Palmer ’70 is a loyal patron and supporter of Auburn University’s Jay and Susie Gogue Performing Arts Center. Her current and future support ensures the arts are available to everyone – now and for generations to come.

Invoking the example of legendary figures from Auburn’s past, President Roberts challenges the current generation of the Auburn Family to create its own legacies – allowing Auburn to dream the biggest dreams.

After an injury derailed Cullen Bryant’s dream of becoming a naval officer days before reporting to the U.S. Naval Academy, fate redirected him to Auburn University. The philanthropy of donors like Bo Davidson has helped make his Auburn Experience possible.

A recently signed law has opened the door for loyal Auburn supporters to use an Individual Retirement Account (IRA) to make a unique gift that not only supports the university, but also pays you an income.

The countless hours Bill Edwards spent in the Ralph B. Draughon Library as a student in the 1960s helped shape his career. His estate gift will ensure the Auburn University Libraries have an equally transformative impact for the next generation.

Stacy Brown co-founded Chicken Salad Chick in Auburn in 2008. Today she speaks to Auburn students in communications and franchising classes. She's also supporting an incubator in the new Tony and Libba Rane Culinary Science Center.

Growing up in “the horse world” meant homeschooling and long hours at the local barn. She began riding at age 4. Her parents and trainers taught her the value of work — hard work. By 12, she was flying to a horse show by herself, becoming independent and self-sufficient.

A researcher in the Molecular and Applied Sciences Laboratory in Auburn’s School of Kinesiology, Shelby Osburn chases innovation in the same lab where she first fell in love with scientific discovery as an undergraduate student.

In the years before coming to Auburn, Jarious Avery had vague dreams of attending college and pursuing a career in medicine. As a first-generation college student, he was alone in the complicated process, navigating every decision by himself — from which school to attend to admission requirements and financial aid possibilities.

Kendall Higdon and Caitlyn Miller have flown the friendly skies around Auburn for years. What they hadn’t done, until last summer, was compete as a team in a four-day, 2,400-mile air race. Their race was made possible, in part, by generous donors who participated in Tiger Giving Day.