Ken Buday Archives

Aug 11, 2020
  • Ken Buday

FRANK CONVERSATIONS

The death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers sparked a movement for social justice this summer, a movement the East Carolina University Police Department supports. “The...

Jul 31, 2020
  • Ken Buday

FIRST-TIME AWARD

The University of North Carolina System announced that a team from East Carolina University has been awarded a grant through UNC’s Research Opportunities Initiative (UNC ROI). The $1.4 million grant...

Jul 28, 2020
  • Ken Buday

Staff: Caroline Hill

From her hometown of Winterville, Caroline Hill sees something familiar in East Carolina University. She sees her father, Ricky, who graduated from and works at ECU, and her older sister...

Jul 14, 2020
  • Ken Buday

VIRTUAL SIMULATION

As East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine prepares future medical professionals, it relies on the Office of Clinical Simulation to provide lifelike patient scenarios for students. However, with coronavirus...

Pirate Profile
Jun 29, 2020
  • Ken Buday

Faculty: Dr. Holly Wei

Dr. Holly Wei is a magician. And as an associate professor in East Carolina University’s College of Nursing, she is teaching her students to become magicians themselves. “When I was...

Jun 16, 2020
  • Ken Buday

Grant to help ECU support underserved student researchers

A $400,000 grant will ensure underserved students from across the country will continue to have undergraduate research opportunities at East Carolina University. The National Science Foundation provided the funding for...

Jun 15, 2020
  • Ken Buday

ECU safety professional receives national award

An East Carolina University safety professional and alumnus has received recognition from a global safety organization. Ogaga Tebehaevu, an industrial hygiene specialist in ECU’s Office of Environmental Health and Safety,...

banner-kim stokes Pirate Profile
Jun 08, 2020
  • Ken Buday

Faculty: Kim Stokes

Between her personal health situation as a child and a supportive family that stressed community and education, Kim Stokes seemed destined for a career in health care and of community...

2020-EC-Scholars-banner-Excel, Collaberate, Serve
May 13, 2020
  • Ken Buday

Gaelle Desert

Gaelle Desert believes she hit all the right notes when she became an EC Scholar as part of the Honors College at East Carolina University. “From the moment I toured...

2020-EC-Scholars-banner-Excel, Collaberate, Serve
May 13, 2020
  • Ken Buday

Marzuq Islam

Marzuq Islam doesn’t have to look far to find the people who have influenced him the most. “My parents are a huge influence,” Islam said of his father Rashidul and...