Richard Butler Archives

Feb 07, 2025
  • Michael Rudd

Six finalists to compete in April’s Aman Pirate Challenge finals

First, there were 75. Then there were 12. Now, there are six. On a night when 12 student-led teams summoned the courage to stand on a stage and pitch their...

A man in a gray shirt and black apron holds a coffee order.
Feb 06, 2025
  • Benjamin Abel

Awaken Coffee expands to ECU: Empowering the differently abled, one cup at a time

As of Feb. 3, the East Carolina University Health Sciences Campus is fully caffeinated again. Awaken Coffee, which offers premium coffee brewed and served by members of the greater Greenville...

Feb 05, 2025
  • Michael Rudd

Miller School Names New Director

The College of Business (COB) has named Dr. Joshua R. Aaron the Miller School of Entrepreneurship's new director. He takes over for Dr. Michael Harris, who officially became dean of...

A woman wearing a gold top with black pants sits in a huge letter ‘C’ that is part of the E-C-U letters in front of East Carolina University’s Main Campus Student Center.
Feb 03, 2025
  • Crystal Baity

Staff: Audra Thomas

Audra Thomas has mentored hundreds of students in her 25 years at East Carolina University, working to ensure they feel like they belong and can find support to succeed in...

A smiling student with straight, brown hair poses in front of shelves displaying orange and black 3D printers.
Jan 31, 2025
  • Alondra Martinez

Student: Hannah Blackburn

Hannah Blackburn, an East Carolina University senior, has accomplished a lot during her time on campus. From being involved with the ECU Honors College, a STEM scholarship recipient, founding a...

A young woman in a brown sweater smiles as she stands next to an older woman with a black scarf and brown sweater to get their picture made against a purple background. At right, a person holds a cell phone up to take the picture.
Jan 31, 2025
  • Ken Buday

ECU Excels celebrates successes of freshmen, transfer students

Kinley Nance showed up at East Carolina University in the fall not knowing what to expect. The freshman from Chadbourn was nearly three hours from home, living on her own...

Jan 29, 2025
  • Benjamin Abel

Heath care students learn to learn from one another

In the 1980s, health care educators began to rethink how health sciences students, including future doctors, nurses, physical therapists and their allied health peers, should learn their jobs. Interprofessional education,...

Group of people performing ribbon-cutting with large scissors at Wildwood Park.
Jan 29, 2025
  • Ronnie Woodward

StoryWalks merge fun, fitness with reading

Parents and caregivers emphasized the fun of reading as they enjoyed spirited and reading-based activities for children at Wildwood Park on Jan. 18 to help introduce StoryWalks to Greenville. StoryWalk...

Jan 28, 2025
  • Lacey L. Gray

Spanish for medical careers: Students shadow professionals at ECU Health

East Carolina University aspires to prepare students with the knowledge, skills and values to succeed in a global, multicultural society. In the fall, students in the Spanish for Health Professions...

Jan 23, 2025
  • ECU News Services

ECU surveys historic houses in western North Carolina post-Hurricane Helene

GREENVILLE, N.C. (01/23/2025) — On Jan. 25-26, East Carolina University students and staff will conduct a historic house survey in western North Carolina in the wake of significant property damage...