Ken Buday Archives

Freshman Faith Spencer gets help from family members as she moves into Ballard Hall. Spencer is majoring in social work and will be part of ECU's track team.
Aug 18, 2022
  • Ken Buday

GOING UP

It took Sharon Justice a few extra stops on the elevator before she landed on the right floor to help her grandson move into Ballard Residence Hall on Tuesday at...

She’s been skydiving and was in a movie, but LuAnn Sullivan is proud of her nearly 34 years working at East Carolina University.
Aug 01, 2022
  • Ken Buday

Staff: LuAnn Sullivan

LuAnn Sullivan was hired at East Carolina University after an interview and one phone call immediately afterward. “You don’t get a job like that anymore,” she said. Now, nearly 34...

Jul 18, 2022
  • Ken Buday

TAKING FLIGHT

If East Carolina University engineering students in a new program need a reminder of the importance of their work, they simply need to look up and listen. The roar of...

Dr. Courtney Caiola poses in front of a building.
Jun 30, 2022
  • Ken Buday

Faculty: Courtney Caiola

With degrees in biology and anthropology, a 22-year-old Courtney Caiola set out on an uncertain future. “I came out of undergrad not knowing what I wanted to do,” she said....

Jun 07, 2022
  • Ken Buday

Project designed to support health care for older adults

Helping older adults with their health while allowing them to live independently is the goal of a project led by a multidisciplinary team of researchers at East Carolina University. Called...

Posed photo of Paul Toriello
Jun 01, 2022
  • Ken Buday

Faculty: Paul Toriello

Dr. Paul Toriello believes almost dying saved his life. Long before he arrived at East Carolina University’s Department of Addictions and Rehabilitation Studies, Toriello jumped out of a second-story window,...

May 31, 2022
  • Ken Buday

Computer science student receives national SMART scholarship

Like many children, Micah Seetoo played video games, but beyond mastering level 10, he became interested in how the games and the devices on which they were played worked. Now,...

East Carolina University student Karigan Seagle uses a virtual reality headset to give a presentation on a building she helped design with other construction management students as part of a semester-long project.
May 19, 2022
  • Ken Buday

NEW VISION

Leondre Horne looked at the design of the hotel and convention center. “It looks good on the outside. It looks great,” the East Carolina University construction management major said. A...

May 13, 2022
  • Ken Buday

Haley Williams

Haley Williams is not one to sit on the sidelines. Williams grew up in an athletic family, with both her father and grandfather coaching high school football. She played tennis...

May 12, 2022
  • Ken Buday

Jamie Gerdts

Jameson “Jamie” Gerdts grew up in Raleigh, a place he described as cozy yet growing. “You can see new developments at the same time as 100-year-old homes converted into restaurants,”...