Glen Webster Archives

Associate Professor Charles Gustina’s interior design students work on the Christenbury Gym project in the design lab in Rivers Building.
Apr 18, 2019
  • Crystal Baity

RETOOLING CHRISTENBURY GYM

An interior design class at East Carolina University has been working this semester on a project close to home: Christenbury Memorial Gym The students have created conceptual designs for potential...

East Carolina University professor Xin Hu shares his cell imaging research with attendees at the biomaterials research cluster launch event held at Research and Creative Achievement Week. The new cluster focuses on engineered materials that can be used for joint replacements, heart valves, surgical sutures or ligament replacements, among others.
Apr 18, 2019
  • Matt Smith

NEW RESEARCH CLUSTER

Researchers are putting a focus on biomaterials with the launch of East Carolina University’s newest research cluster. On April 5, the university launched its biomaterials research cluster as part of...

Undergraduate researcher Radha Patel shares her work with a judge at East Carolina University’s 13th annual Research and Creative Achievement Week. A record number of undergraduate students presented at this year’s event. (Photo by Matt Smith)
Apr 15, 2019
  • Doug Boyd
  • Matt Smith

CELEBRATING RESEARCH

East Carolina University researchers shared their work with the community as part of the university’s 13th annual Research and Creative Achievement Week. Nearly 400 oral and poster presentations – including a...

East Carolina University faculty and administrators toured eastern North Carolina over two days as part of the second annual Purple and Golden Bus Tour. The tour is designed to introduce faculty researchers to the culture, geography, heritage, economy and assets of eastern North Carolina. (Photos by Matt Smith)
Mar 14, 2019
  • Matt Smith

COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS

East Carolina University’s second annual Purple and Golden Bus Tour rolled out of Greenville on March 4, making 10 stops while traveling 423 miles over two days in eastern North...

Students pick up trash along Old River Road northwest of Greenville. (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Mar 06, 2019
  • Crystal Baity

SERVING OTHERS

Service-minded students from East Carolina University spent part of their spring break on a blustery, overcast Monday cleaning up Old River Road north of the Tar River. Students picked up...

The Department of Construction Management’s Dr. George Wang is researching the feasibility of using recycled concrete and other alternative materials to make new concrete. (Photo by Cliff Hollis)
Mar 04, 2019
  • Jules Norwood

CONCRETE SOLUTIONS

An East Carolina University construction management professor and a local construction company have teamed up in search of a solution to a problem facing the North Carolina Department of Transportation...

Photography by Rhett Butler
Feb 25, 2019
  • Bri Deel

Student: Austin Allen

Austin Allen truly is a jack of all trades. Allen is a senior who excels in a multitude of areas at East Carolina University. Allen is a Chancellors Fellow in...

ECU’s College of Business is one of the largest in North Carolina and is home to the state’s first named school of entrepreneurship.
Feb 18, 2019
  • Glen Webster

‘BRIGHT FUTURE’

East Carolina University has named Dr. Paul Schwager as its sixth dean of the College of Business. The appointment was approved by the ECU Board of Trustees during a special...

ECU professor Dr. Stephanie Pitts talks with convenience store owner David Rizik about the healthy food choices available in his store on Old Pactolus Highway in Pitt County. (ECU Photo by Rhett Butler)
Feb 08, 2019
  • Rob Spahr

EFFECTIVENESS OF HEALTHIER FOOD OPTIONS

Researchers from East Carolina University have been awarded grant funding to study the effectiveness of a program to improve access to healthy food options in North Carolina. The two-year, $250,000...

Dr. Mark Williams shares a hug with a friend after a ceremony for the establishment of the Travis and Cassandra Burt Professorship in Cardiovascular Sciences at the ECHI, as Dr. Randolph Chitwood, left, the founder and former head of ECHI, looks on. (Photos by Rhett Butler)
Jan 31, 2019
  • Erin Ward

HEARTFELT DONATION

When Travis Burt felt intense pain shoot down his left arm and an acrid taste fill his mouth, he knew something was wrong. His normally tanned face became deeply flushed...