Doug Boyd Archives

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...

Camellias bloom outside the new ECU student center and parking deck. They’re part of the year-round landscape design at the new facilities.
Feb 01, 2019
  • Doug Boyd

NATIVE AND SUSTAINABLE

While East Carolina University’s new student center building has received much well-deserved attention, the grounds surrounding it are just as creative and innovative. Though the turf and some plants are...

Members of ECU’s Black Student Union serve lunch at the Community Crossroads Center.
Jan 25, 2019
  • Doug Boyd
  • Jamie Smith

LEGACY OF SERVICE

A day off from classes is normally a welcomed invitation to sleep in and take it easy, but on Monday, Jan. 21, hundreds of East Carolina University students braved an...

Baseball instructor Lance Martin hits as ECU researchers Patrick Rider and Nick Marray observe.
Jan 24, 2019
  • Doug Boyd

BATTER UP!

Eastern North Carolina is rich in baseball tradition, with a pair of Hall of Famers among its native sons. That tradition could take a step forward through work researchers at...

ECU alumnus Todd Burdick of Garner unloads food he brought Tuesday, Sept. 18, for university relief efforts as ECU junior Davis Basden and Sharon Paynter of ECU’s Division of Research, Economic Development and Engagement assist. Burdick works for a commercial food broker. (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Sep 18, 2018
  • Doug Boyd

AFTER THE STORM

East Carolina University has set up a recovery operations center for those affected by Hurricane Florence and created a website where individuals and businesses may request assistance and the ECU...

Davarion David, center, and Brittany Hoyt, assistant director at the Pirate Academic Success Center, talk to a summer school student about what the center has to offer while passing out popsicles on the mall Thursday. (Photos by Rhett Butler)
Jun 22, 2018
  • Doug Boyd

BOOSTING ACADEMIC SUCCESS

Students and their families didn’t just receive some popsicles to help cool down at orientation this week. They also got assurances that if they can’t seem to hit their stride...