Richard Butler Archives

Jan 27, 2020
  • Grady Dillon

Student: Lamar Gilchrist

As a kid, East Carolina student Lamar Gilchrist got to be in front of a camera. Now, he wants to be the one behind it. “When I was growing up,...

Jan 15, 2020
  • Grady Dillon

Student: Delaney Arthur

East Carolina student Delaney Arthur has a passion for drawing and designing clothes. Now, she hopes to one day start her own design company. Arthur, a junior from Lynchburg, Virginia,...

Jan 14, 2020
  • Crystal Baity

NATIONALLY RANKED

Online graduate programs at East Carolina University have been recognized among the nation’s best in a new ranking by U.S. News & World Report. ECU’s master’s programs in business, criminal...

Amber Arnold, assistant director of student success in the Pirate Academic Success Center, works with ECU student Nolan McDonald on an assignment. Photo by Rhett Butler.
Jan 13, 2020
  • Crystal Baity

MINDSET TO SUCCESS

Nolan McDonald speaks from experience: You can turn around a bad first semester. Now a junior, McDonald moved to East Carolina University from his hometown of Medford, New Jersey. Not...

ECU postdoctoral scholar Byron Aguilar is studying a compound that could help Alzheimer’s patients. (Photos by Doug Boyd)
Jan 09, 2020
  • Doug Boyd

CONQUERING DISEASE

Byron Aguilar is studying how a group of signaling proteins called Rho GTPases, which play a role in several common cellular functions, might affect the development of not only cancer...

Nov 20, 2019
  • Grady Dillon

‘INTO THE WOODS’

East Carolina University students will perform “Into the Woods,” a musical that intertwines several fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm and Charles Perrault, Nov. 20 through Nov. 24 in McGinnis...

Oct 16, 2019
  • Matt Smith

INNOVATION MOVES FORWARD

Twelve student-led entrepreneurship teams moved on to the semifinal round of the third annual Pirate Entrepreneurship Challenge after nearly 3,000 votes were cast in Tuesday’s opening round of East Carolina...

Oct 16, 2019
  • Grady Dillon

FALL DANCE 2019

TICKETS Oct. 16-19 – 7:30 p.m. Oct. 19-20 – 2 p.m. $15 Public | $10 Students East Carolina University’s production of Fall Dance 2019 will take place in McGinnis Auditorium...

Oct 15, 2019
  • Kelly Rusk

DESIGNING WITH HISTORY

Architect Zena Howard is known for leading projects such as the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. and Atlanta’s Center for Civil and Human...

Behavioral health consultants provide ongoing services for short-term behavioral health concerns. (Photo by Cliff Hollis)
Sep 26, 2019
  • Spaine Stephens

COLLABORATIONS IN CARE

A unique grant celebrates East Carolina University’s commitment to using interprofessional collaboration to address emerging and challenging trends in health care, including opioid use and substance abuse prevention and treatment....