Doug Boyd Archives

May 28, 2014
  • Doug Boyd

‘A REVOLUTIONARY STEP’

Researchers at East Carolina University will soon have the use of an advanced DNA sequencing device that will assist in their studies of genomics, the field of genetics that deals...

May 16, 2014
  • Doug Boyd

VALUABLE INSIGHTS

A small fish that East Carolina University biologist Jeff McKinnon collected as a boy growing up in British Columbia will be the centerpiece of a study that could give insight...

Apr 28, 2014
  • Doug Boyd

‘HAPPY TO DO IT’

A grounds crew from East Carolina University traveled to Elizabeth City State University April 28 to help clean up damage from three tornadoes that struck the area April 25. Four...

Apr 25, 2014
  • Doug Boyd

ECU names Mitchelson interim provost

Dr. Ron Mitchelson, interim vice chancellor for research and graduate studies at East Carolina University, has been appointed interim provost effective Aug. 16. A geographer, Mitchelson has been at ECU...

Mar 28, 2014
  • Doug Boyd

TOP HONORS

A distance-education professor is East Carolina University’s recipient of one of the state’s highest teaching honors. Abbie Brown, a professor of instructional technology in the ECU College of Education, has...

Mar 21, 2014
  • Doug Boyd

PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER

Match Day is another milestone for East Carolina University medical student Alan Burke, who’s had a few of them. The cancer survivor will graduate from the Brody School of Medicine...

Mar 21, 2014
  • Doug Boyd

Primary care leads at ECU Match Day

Match Day is another milestone for East Carolina University medical student Alan Burke, who's had a few of them. The cancer survivor will graduate from the Brody School of Medicine...

Mar 19, 2014
  • Doug Boyd

SAFER SURGERY

Studies conducted at East Carolina University have shown a way to predict which heart surgery patients may have a common postoperative complication as well as a way to treat those...

Mar 19, 2014
  • Doug Boyd

Studies show ways to predict, prevent fibrillation following surgery

Studies conducted at East Carolina University have shown a way to predict which heart surgery patients may have a common postoperative complication as well as a way to treat those...

Mar 17, 2014
  • Doug Boyd

‘MAKING IT ACCESSIBLE’

Last fall when the American Heart Association issued new guidelines to help doctors teach their patients about their risks of developing cardiovascular disease – accompanied by a bulky computer spreadsheet...