Ken Buday Archives

A young man wearing glasses and a hoodie is seated as he looks at a small robot that has a head and two arms.
Apr 17, 2025
  • Ken Buday

Programming Partnership

Greene Central High School senior Luis Herrera enjoys technology. “I’m pretty fascinated with robots,” he said. “I think it’s cool writing code.” Thanks to a partnership between the school and...

A male student in a white lab coat and safety goggles extracts a golden liquid from a canister that has a variety of tubes and connections.
Apr 10, 2025
  • Ken Buday

New Bioreactors Boost Careers

The job market in the pharmaceutical industry is growing — just like the cells in the new bioreactors at East Carolina University’s Eastern Region Pharma Center. Engineering students put the...

A woman in a gray shirt holds a white construction hard hat as she stands next to a ladder and numerous tools hanging on shelves.
Mar 19, 2025
  • Ken Buday

Winning Writer

East Carolina University construction management student Chloe Kildea knows where the industry has been. “The internships I’ve had have all been with people who still like to do things by...

A man wearing a black jacket and gray shirt gestures with his hands as he stands and talks to numerous people seated in chairs to the left and right of him.
Mar 07, 2025
  • Ken Buday

Tech Summit

Sometimes, life lessons are hard. Other times, they’ll get you 50 bucks. East Carolina University student Jacob Reinger learned the latter during the Technology Summit on Tuesday in the Main...

A man at right stands in front of a display table and smiles as he speaks to another man, far left, and a woman.
Mar 03, 2025
  • Ken Buday

Transfer Day

Overlooking Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium, Dr. Allen Guidry channeled a raucous Saturday afternoon football crowd into Bachelor of Science in Industrial Technology (BSIT) and Technology Systems Transfer Day at East Carolina University’s...

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Feb 18, 2025
  • Ken Buday

Engineering Excellence

Amid the calculus and complex mathematical equations lies a simple formula for success for East Carolina University engineering students: Get a degree, change your life and transform the region. “The...

A woman in a gray jacket smiles as she talks with a person at right.
Feb 13, 2025
  • Ken Buday

Careers in the Making

It’s not that Annie Ries doesn’t want a full-time job. It’s just that she’s still a student, a freshman at that. That didn’t stop the construction management major from attending...

A man in a gray sweatshirt holds up a cylinder to show students sitting at a lab table.
Jan 24, 2025
  • Ken Buday

Cementing Solutions

An East Carolina University construction management researcher has published work that describes a more sustainable process to produce concrete. Dr. Amin Akhnoukh worked with Natrx, a Raleigh sustainable technologies company,...

Fifteen people stand on steps in front of a building.
Jan 07, 2025
  • Ken Buday

Pollution Prevention Grant

The East Carolina University Center for Sustainable Energy and Environmental Engineering (CSE3) has received a grant from the Environmental Protection Agency to enhance sustainability and prevent pollution in North Carolina...

A man wearing a red shirt with a black undershirt sits at a desk in front of a laptop computer in a room with windows that show the outside.
Dec 18, 2024
  • Ken Buday

Weston Nelson

Weston Nelson graduated from East Carolina University in 2015 with a degree in marketing and supply chain management. “When I got out into the job market, it was brutal, so...