ADDING VALUE TO AGRICULTURE
Ride by an eastern North Carolina farm, and you’ll see tobacco, corn, cotton, soybeans, maybe sorghum or wheat, and often some livestock. Janire Pascual-Gonzalez sees new sources of revenue for...
Doug Boyd Archives
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...
ARTIST, TEACHER, PIRATE
Years ago, Sneads Ferry artist Sherry Thurston ’70 drew a pair of white rubber boots – the kind local shrimpers and anglers wear – called the drawing “Sneads Ferry Sneakers”...
THE SEASON FOR SAVING
Here’s bad news for college students: A Princeton University study says financial stress can make you less smart. “When human beings see scarcity, they go into survival mode,” said Dean...
A HAND UP
When you see Nicholas Hill’s experimental prosthetic hand for the first time, it’s just too easy to crack a joke about the upcoming “Terminator: Dark Fate.” It looks that much...
WHAT IS IMPEACHMENT?
This week, the U.S House of Representatives began an impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump regarding a July 25 phone call between him and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. A transcript...
DIGGING INTO RESEARCH
County Home Road. The name is sort of self-explanatory. Somewhere along this stretch of highway south of Greenville was a building or buildings where some people lived. But who were...
Quaid Lawler
Quaid Lawler is headed to East Carolina University with a smile on his face. And if all goes according to plan, he’ll be putting smiles on a lot more faces...
Dymon Blango
Dymon Blango of Greenville has a head start on her college career at East Carolina University. A graduate of the Pitt County Early College High School, Blango already has associate’s...
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...