Doug Boyd Archives

Jan 07, 2021
  • Doug Boyd

This soldier fought for the North, for the South and for freedom

In his latest book, Galvanized: The Odyssey of a Reluctant Carolina Confederate, Michael Brantley ’12 tells the story of his great-great-grandfather, a private from Nash County who fought for the...

Changing Classes
Jan 06, 2021
  • Doug Boyd
  • Erin Ward
  • Matt Smith

Changing Classes

STORY BY MATT SMITH • ERIN WARD • DOUG BOYD CHANGING CLASSES From kindergarten to high school, ECU teachers are making school work during COVID-19. Online classes. Face-to-face classes. Virtual...

Jan 06, 2021
  • Doug Boyd

A year like no other

Interim Chancellor Ron Mitchelson talks about his time at the helm and what the future holds for ECU – and himself. How would you sum up your year-plus as interim...

May 27, 2020
  • Doug Boyd
  • Erin Ward
  • Ken Buday
  • Michael Rudd

ECU takes on COVID-19

March 20 was a sunny post-spring break day at ECU. The only difference was students were packing up to leave instead of getting back into their campus routines. “It’s kind...

Approximately 25 conference attendees took a bus trip Feb. 28 to Windsor and Princeville, two towns that have sustained significant flood damage due to hurricanes.
May 27, 2020
  • Doug Boyd

ECU hosts first ‘HurriCon’

From sea level rise to shoreline impacts to community resilience and more, researchers and presenters from across the country – as well as Puerto Rico – descended on Greenville in...

Jake Kuchmaner throws a pitch in a 10-2 win over Georgia Southern on Feb. 23. ECU was ranked 19th in the coaches poll and fifth in RPI when the season ended. Ally
May 27, 2020
  • Doug Boyd

Coronavirus affects spring sports, ticket renewals

Just as things were getting exciting, the coronavirus forced ECU to cancel the remainder of the season for baseball, softball, lacrosse, men’s and women’s golf, men’s and women’s tennis, and...

May 14, 2020
  • Crystal Baity
  • Doug Boyd
  • Erin Ward
  • Lacey Gray

Making Waves

Making Waves From creeks to oceans, water covers more than 70% of the Earth’s surface. For these East Carolina graduates, that’s plenty to create a career. Published May 14, 2020...

Oct 01, 2019
  • Doug Boyd

Artist, teacher, philanthropist, Pirate

Years ago, Sneads Ferry artist Sherry Thurston ’70 drew a pair of white rubber boots – the kind local shrimpers and anglers wear – called the drawing “Sneads Ferry Sneakers”...

Students working at the Brunswick Town dig site
Oct 01, 2019
  • Doug Boyd

Sedition and whiskey

Decades before Americans fought taxes in the Whiskey Rebellion, colonists apparently drank whiskey and talked rebellion in a southeastern N.C. tavern ECU students uncovered this summer. Last year at the...

Sep 27, 2019
  • Doug Boyd

Pirates Ascending

Published Oct 01, 2019 by Doug Boyd Filed under: East, Fall 2019 Most every year in recent memory, Pirate sports teams have been nationally ranked. Most every year, ECU teams...