Richard Butler Archives

A Nassau grouper
Sep 12, 2018
  • ECU News Services/UT

Study shows climate change may hinder fish conservation efforts

For more than 20 years, conservationists in the Caribbean have been working to protect the endangered Nassau grouper. Thanks to those efforts, populations of this critical reef fish have stabilized...

Saiid Powers
Sep 11, 2018
  • Crystal Baity

Fall enrollment nears 29,000

Jaalen Best moved into College Hill Suites on Aug. 14, hoping to avoid the rush of ECU move-in traffic before starting a new job at the campus recreation center. “I’m...

ECU geology professors J.P. Walsh, left, and Reide Corbett work with an instrument in a lab at the University of North Carolina Coastal Studies Institute. In August, Corbett was named dean of integrated coastal programs and director of the CSI.
Sep 11, 2018
  • Jules Norwood

Corbett named Coastal Studies Institute director

Reide Corbett is the new dean of integrated coastal programs and director of the Coastal Studies Institute. Corbett, a professor in the geology department and a faculty member since 2000,...

Custom boards
Sep 11, 2018
  • Crystal Baity

Students design, build custom boards

Camille Young’s four cousins will receive skateboards as Christmas presents – all made by her in a summer session class in the School of Art and Design. Young also made...

ECU professor Ernie Marshburn has developed a new approach to boating safety using an app on boaters’ phones.
Sep 11, 2018
  • Jules Norwood

Boating safety focus of ECU-designed app

A new smartphone app called SOBOS — Self reported On-water Boat Operator Survey — is aimed at changing the face of boating safety by putting data collection in the hands...

Sep 11, 2018
  • Rob Spahr

ECU to establish School of Rural Public Health

ECU’s public health department will grow into a new School of Rural Public Health in August 2020, after plans were approved by the University of North Carolina System in May....

From left, students Elisabeth Jones (special education), Amanda Fabritius (special education), Jazmin Alston (school psychology) and Whitney Briggs (speech-language pathology) participate in the CONVEY summer institute in June at ECU.
Sep 11, 2018
  • Cole Dittmer

Cross-campus team awarded $1.25 million for special education study

Breaking down the silos of public and higher education for the benefit of learners with disabilities and high intensity needs is the mission behind a new East Carolina University graduate...