Doug Boyd Archives

May 21, 2018
  • Doug Boyd

FROM THE MINOR LEAGUES TO THE LLWS

Last fall in his Winterville office at Albemarle Bank – a Little League World Series plaque on the table behind him – Brian Fields ’98 ’01 described the similarities between...

May 21, 2018
  • Doug Boyd

5 minutes with Melisa Ball ’08

Position: Manufacturing engineer, welding and fabrication, BSH Home Appliances Corp., New Bern Degree: Bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering technology, mechanical design concentration and a minor in business Hometown: Clayton “We...

May 18, 2018
  • Doug Boyd

Student Snapshot

Hometown: Morganton Major: Public health studies, community health concentration Year: Senior Career goals: Become a physician assistant and operate a clinic Why did you choose ECU? The reason I came...

May 18, 2018
  • Doug Boyd

High-Class Bluegrass

If you’ve checked out the local bluegrass scene at all, chances are you’ve run across Hank Smith and Pattie Hopkins Kinlaw ’06. With their band, The Current, the banjo-fiddle duo...

May 16, 2018
  • Doug Boyd

You know an ECU doctor

Sara King ’79 recalls the time she called the office of her doctor, Mary Kirby, about a medical matter. She thought she needed to come in for an appointment. Kirby...

May 15, 2018
  • Doug Boyd

Ideate, Investigate, Innovate

East Carolina has been a place for new ideas for more than 100 years. And new ideas are what university leaders are hoping will help grow the university’s research enterprise...

May 15, 2018
  • Doug Boyd

Bull sharks more abundant in N.C. waters, study says

Sightings of nursing bull sharks in coastal estuaries such as North Carolina’s Pamlico Sound are on the rise, largely due to ocean warming, a phenomenon that is encouraging bull sharks...

Oct 19, 2017
  • Doug Boyd

Expecting excellence

When Chancellor Cecil Staton takes his daily walk across campus to the Starbucks truck, he sees a lot of reasons to make East Carolina “America’s next great national university,” as...

Sep 27, 2017
  • Doug Boyd

Expecting excellence

When Chancellor Cecil Staton takes his daily walk across campus to the Starbucks truck, he sees a lot of reasons to make East Carolina “America’s next great national university,” as...