Students Archives

Jan 23, 2020
  • Kenneth Buday

SUCCESS FOR LIFE

East Carolina University student Miriam Harb entered college with a lot of questions. Now, she answers them. As a student success coach with the new Student Success Center in the...

Jan 22, 2020
  • Kenneth Buday

CYBER CHAMP

East Carolina University graduate student Alex Hardt had one reaction when his name was called as the winner of a $10,000 national cybersecurity competition. “Disbelief,” he said. Hardt, a student...

Jan 06, 2020
  • Kenneth Buday

ROBO PLANTER

Protecting the environment may just start with a robot. Two East Carolina University industrial engineering technology students have helped create a robotic seed planter for wetland plants that is quicker...

Dec 13, 2019
  • Doug Boyd

TASSELS TURNED

David Knight III of Raleigh is the first in his family to graduate from college. He did so Friday, receiving his degree from the East Carolina University’s College of Engineering...

Dec 04, 2019
  • Kenneth Buday

WAVE OF ENERGY

Finding inspiration in nature, two East Carolina University professors and their student researchers are hoping to put the current of the Gulf Stream to good use. Dr. Praveen Malali, director...

Nov 25, 2019
  • Kenneth Buday

PIRATES SUPPORTING PIRATES

The Purple Pantry targets food insecurity on the campus of East Carolina University, and now in its second year, it has experienced an increase in the number of students it...

Nov 22, 2019
  • Kenneth Buday

KICKING BOT

Preparation paid off for a team of East Carolina University engineering and technology students with a first-place finish at a national robot competition. The members of the robotics team of...

Nov 15, 2019
  • Kenneth Buday

WASTE NOT

Holly Whitmyer is happy to be out of the classroom. She hasn’t graduated from East Carolina University yet, but she is among seven students tasked with a real-world project that...

Oct 30, 2019
  • Kenneth Buday

BUILDING A BETTER BOT

One by one, students sorted the tiny, tangled wires of purple, white, yellow and black. And one by one, students painstakingly attached those tiny, tangled wires to even smaller connections...

Oct 22, 2019
  • Kenneth Buday

ENGINEERING A CAREER

Antonia Dingeman always knew what she wanted to do in her life. “I’ve wanted to be an engineer ever since the second grade,” said Dingman, an East Carolina University senior...