Doug Boyd Archives

Jan 21, 2020
  • Doug Boyd

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...

ECU postdoctoral scholar Byron Aguilar is studying a compound that could help Alzheimer’s patients. (Photos by Doug Boyd)
Jan 09, 2020
  • Doug Boyd

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...

Dec 18, 2019
  • Doug Boyd

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”...

Nov 21, 2019
  • Doug Boyd

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...

Nov 12, 2019
  • Doug Boyd

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...

Sep 27, 2019
  • Doug Boyd

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...

Aug 29, 2019
  • Doug Boyd
  • Kristen Martin

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...

Medals
May 21, 2019
  • Doug Boyd

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...

Medals
May 21, 2019
  • Doug Boyd

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...

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...