BRIDGE TO SUCCESS
Will Janning watches as a seagull flies across a clear sky. The nearby water greets the sand he stands on, allowing him a dry spot from where he can see...
Ken Buday Archives
ECU robot delivers second-place finish in national competition
When handed lemons, students in East Carolina University’s College of Engineering and Technology didn’t just make lemonade. They made a robot that could deliver it. ECU’s Association of Technology, Management...
Staff: Meghan Lower
Meghan Lower seemed destined to be a Pirate. After all, she grew up 15 minutes from the East Carolina University campus, her grandparents and mother graduated from ECU, making her...
EPA grant to help ECU prevent pollution, improve health
One person’s trash is another, well, is everybody’s problem. East Carolina University’s Center for Sustainable Energy and Environmental Engineering (CSE3) recognizes that and aims to help companies and manufacturers reduce...
PharmaFest to offer career paths to ECU students in a variety of programs
The pharmaceutical industry isn’t just for chemists and biologists anymore, and an event at East Carolina University is designed to show just that. The Eastern Region Pharma Center has scheduled...
ECU student receives $20,000 from MrBeast during walk across campus
East Carolina University student Jack Costello had a good reason to hang up on his girlfriend — 20,000 of them to be exact. “I told her, ‘I think that’s MrBeast....
Faculty: James Franklin
In dusty, west Texas, nothing should grow. Yet, it’s where musical passion grew in Dr. James Franklin, the director of choral activities and associate professor of music at East Carolina...
ECU alumnus offers academic, career advice to students
Pablo Hernández didn’t know English. He learned it. His parents didn’t go to college. He did. Growing up in Venezuela, he came to America, accepting an unpaid internship because he...
PREVENTING POLLUTION
At a large manufacturing plant outside the small town of Tarboro, East Carolina University student Behzad Zeinolabedini looks toward the ceiling. Amid the spooling strands of copper wire that will...
Faculty: Dr. Yong Zhu
When Yong Zhu attended college, he learned a valuable lesson about the path to success. “I just kept my head down, showed up, kept trying and never gave up on...