Ken Buday Archives

Feb 07, 2022
  • Ken Buday

Work begins on first phase of Intersect East

Developer Elliott Sidewalk Communities joined with university officials, Board of Trustees members, and local and state leaders in breaking ground on the $40 million project to renovate three buildings on...

Matt Harrup
Jun 16, 2021
  • ECU News Services
  • Ken Buday

Student snapshot

Hometown: Brussels, Belgium Major: Coastal resources management doctoral student Career Goals: To become an archaeologist East Carolina University student Matt Harrup wasn’t looking for a tavern. However, when he found one,...

Jun 16, 2021
  • Ken Buday

Golden LEAF gives $1.9 million to create Eastern Region Pharma Center

ECU has received a nearly $1.9 million grant from the Golden LEAF Foundation for the creation of a pharmaceutical manufacturing training center. The Eastern Region Pharma Center is designed to...

Jun 16, 2021
  • Crystal Baity
  • Doug Boyd
  • Erin Ward
  • Ken Buday

Earth Works

Earth Works Look around the country and you’ll find East Carolina alumni working with the land and the species that inhabit it to make the world a better place. If...

Jun 04, 2021
  • Ken Buday

5 minutes with ADAM WOLFF ’13

Occupation: Assistant project manager for Archer Western Construction Degrees: Bachelor of science, construction management Hometown: Winston-Salem, NC What are your job responsibilities? I manage all of the day-to-day activities on...

Jun 02, 2021
  • Ken Buday

Carbon-fiber bridge coming to the coast

While the entire bridge won’t be built of the black composite material, its use as a reinforcing component should reduce construction and maintenance costs while extending the life of the...

Jan 08, 2021
  • Ken Buday

Surviving the Lockdown

Business owners entered 2020 with optimism. Unemployment hovered around 4%, people were spending money and the United States had a record streak of 128 straight months of economic expansion. “Year...

Jan 06, 2021
  • Ken Buday

ECU part of effort to develop global, high-speed research network

Creating a research data superhighway across the Atlantic Ocean is the focus of a collaborative project that includes ECU. Researchers at ECU and George Mason University have received a $463,256...

Madison Speagle, left, and Holly Whitmyer look over a field of sorghum at the Greenville Utilities wastewater treatment plant.
May 27, 2020
  • Ken Buday

Engineering students work on wastewater project with Greenville Utilities

Holly Whitmyer was among seven students last fall and this spring tasked with a real-world project that could help the environment as well as the Greenville Utilities Commission and its...

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...