Richard Butler Archives

Jan 10, 2024
  • Jules Norwood

ECU joins partnership to boost innovation in NC

Thanks in part to university research, North Carolina has great potential for research and development but trails other states in commercializing that research, according to NCInnovation, a nonprofit formed to...

Jan 10, 2024
  • Jules Norwood

QAR lab partners with Waccamaw Siouan Tribe to conserve 930-year-old canoe

Watch a video on the Lake Waccamaw canoe It’s not uncommon for children to step on a submerged log or stump while playing in a North Carolina lake or river....

Jan 10, 2024
  • Benjamin Abel

Study by ECU medical student shows effects of wildfire smoke on infants

Radhika Dhingra already had the letters “Dr.” before her name before she stepped foot into the Brody Medical Sciences Building as a medical student. Dhingra completed her undergraduate education in...

Jul 10, 2023
  • Benjamin Abel

Artillery Officer, Proud Pirate

For Maj. Daniel Self ’20, completing an online master’s degree in security studies at East Carolina University helped him to bridge the gulf between his experiences as a fires officer...

Jul 10, 2023
  • Ken Buday

Taste for Success

When Ryan Mitchell ’01 came to ECU, he thought he had seen the last of the family barbecue restaurant in Wilson where he had been working since age 13. “I...

Jul 10, 2023
  • Rich Klindworth

Updated strategic plan emphasizes innovation

Future focused. Innovation driven. is ECU’s strategic plan for 2023–2028. A refresh of the university’s 2017–2022 strategic plan, it highlights the intersection of ECU’s mission, vision and values as it...

Jul 10, 2023
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

EC Scholars renaming reflects donors’ $30 million commitment

In a milestone moment for ECU, Chancellor Philip Rogers announced a combined $30 million commitment to the institution from Robert Gentry Brinkley ’78 and Amy Woods Brinkley and Lewis Patrick...

Jul 10, 2023
  • Ken Buday

Internship with one of NASCAR’s top teams motivates engineering student

Sophomore Colin Foley from New London spent last summer and part of his winter break interning with Richard Childress Racing, one of NASCAR’s most successful racing teams. “Every time I...

Jul 10, 2023
  • Kim Tilghman

Business grad expands online shop to brick-and-mortar store

Following success online, Greenville native Ashley Nolan ’20 has expanded her copper jewelry and crystal business to a storefront in Arlington Village in Greenville. Shoppers can now find the whimsical,...

Jul 10, 2023
  • ECU News Services

Team studying health care for Ukrainian refugees

A team of ECU College of Nursing faculty and students have joined with colleagues from Poland and Ukraine to assess the nursing guidance needed to help provide quality health care...