Doug Boyd Archives

Dec 01, 2015
  • Doug Boyd

A PRINTOUT FOR PROGRESS

East Carolina University today opened a new 3D design and prototyping center and announced the start of a workforce-development program that strengthens students’ skills and promotes economic development. Funded in...

ECU graduate student Tyler Beasley will serve as the first graduate student representative for the UNC Association of Student Governments.
Oct 06, 2015
  • Doug Boyd

RECEIVER AND ROLE MODEL

Isaiah “Zay” Jones knows he has an opportunity to accomplish a lot on the football field this fall. And he knows how to get there. “It starts with me,” the...

Oct 01, 2015
  • Doug Boyd

CLEANER BY NATURE

The city’s stream Named for the 19th-century mill it powered, Greens Mill Run begins near Allen Road and meanders through Greenville before emptying into the Tar River near Hastings Ford....

Sep 24, 2015
  • Doug Boyd

SCIENCE ON THE SEA

East Carolina University scientists have been sending a small craft to navigate the North Carolina coast studying underwater noise and keeping tabs on tagged marine life all to better understand...

ECU biology professor Carol Goodwillie, winner of the 2015 UNC Board of Governors Excellence in Teaching Award, spoke to faculty members at the annual faculty convocation Aug. 21. (Photos by Jay Clark)
Aug 21, 2015
  • Doug Boyd

SERVING OUR MISSION

Making progress on the establishment of two new schools, an enrollment of 30,000 students and the largest fundraising campaign in school history are among East Carolina University’s priorities for this...

ECU graduate student Matt Gallagher, left, talks with an equipment operator at Cherry Research Farm in Goldsboro as part of a N.C. Agromedicine Institute program to improve operator comfort. ECU's involvement in the Agromedicine Institute is one of the attributes that helped ECU earn the designation of an Innovation and Economic Prosperity University from the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities. (Photo by Cliff Hollis)
Jun 24, 2015
  • Doug Boyd

ECONOMIC ENGINE

In recognition of its strong commitment to economic engagement, East Carolina University has been designated as an Innovation and Economic Prosperity University by the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities....

Jun 22, 2015
  • Doug Boyd

DISCOVERY DOLLARS

When the little pin-tailed whydah chirps and flaps its wings in Africa, not much happens in the rest of the world. But what the bird might teach scientists about brain...

Jun 04, 2015
  • Doug Boyd

ON ROANOKE ISLAND

An agreement among five universities has confirmed the multi-institutional mission of the University of North Carolina Coastal Studies Institute and established East Carolina University as the administrative campus of the...

May 08, 2015
  • Amy Adams Ellis
  • Doug Boyd

GRADUATION DAY

Sunshine lighted the smiles of graduates as they marched into Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium for the 106th spring commencement at East Carolina University today. And even as clouds from Subtropical Storm Ana...

Apr 24, 2015
  • Doug Boyd

ACCESSIBLE SCIENCE

Scott Jones, a doctoral candidate at East Carolina University, spent Monday showing middle and high school students different types of aquatic insects and telling them about his research of population...