Richard Butler Archives

Feb 20, 2025
  • ECU News Services

Is there a poet in this hospital? Arts and humanities-informed health care

GREENVILLE, N.C. (02/19/2025) — East Carolina University’s annual Tag lecture, hosted by the Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences Department of English, will welcome author, teacher and former ballet...

Feb 19, 2025
  • Jessica VanderKolk

ECU composer Taggart recalls unique filmed opera during height of COVID-19 pandemic

Longtime East Carolina University faculty member Mark Taggart had already been baking bread for years when the COVID-19 pandemic struck in 2020, but he had not composed an opera specifically...

Feb 18, 2025
  • Benjamin Abel

Students lead café kitchen at ECU, learning nutrition and food service skills

In early February, students in chef’s coats and a motley array of East Carolina University baseball hats fired up the grills, sharpened the knives and turned on the cash registers...

A graphic showing a map of the world and the words ‘love is in the air’ displayed.
Feb 14, 2025
  • Kristen Martin
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

Lesson in Love: Study abroad led to this Pirate’s happily ever after

Life-changing is a phrase most students use to describe their study abroad experience. East Carolina University alumna Laurel Truelove Currie ’10 didn’t know just how much study abroad would change...

A baby’s finger is being held by an adult thumb and finger.
Feb 13, 2025
  • Lacey L. Gray

ECU biology professor researches genetic markers associated with sudden infant death syndrome

The loss of a child is an emotionally sensitive experience for a parent, no matter the age, but when the cause is unknown, as in the case of sudden infant...

Feb 13, 2025
  • ECU News Services

East Carolina University achieves R1 status, joins nation’s elite universities

GREENVILLE, N.C. (2/13/2025) — East Carolina University has reached a historic milestone, earning the prestigious Research 1 (R1) designation—placing it among the nation’s top-tier research universities. This recognition, announced this...

Feb 12, 2025
  • Ronnie Woodward

Fifty years of enhancing recreational therapy

East Carolina University is serving as a vibrant hub for National Recreational Therapy Month in February. On the state level, ECU will host the North Carolina Recreational Therapy Association’s Student-Professionals...

Four people sit in front of a window and look at computers held in their laps.
Feb 12, 2025
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

Scholarship initiative boosts recruitment of high-achieving students

East Carolina University is better prepared to provide scholarships to more high-achieving students thanks to donor support of the institution’s new Chancellor’s Scholars Initiative. Through this new initiative, more than...

Fast-moving and turgid flood waters move down a moderate slope upon which a red brick ranch house sits partially submerged.
Feb 11, 2025
  • Bobby Ampezzan

Agromedicine Institute continues aid, outreach through western North Carolina’s hurricane recovery

Recovering from a natural disaster can be as harrowing as the event itself, and it does not discriminate, but it lands differently for farmers and farm families. Growers are tied...

Feb 07, 2025
  • ECU News Services

Board of Trustees hears research highlights

With a 127% increase in research funding since 2018, East Carolina University is making a positive difference in the lives of students and people throughout the region, nation and world....