Ken Buday Archives

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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...

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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,...

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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...

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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...

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Dec 18, 2024
  • Ken Buday

Marvin Godoy-Diaz

As a child in Rose Hill, Marvin Godoy-Diaz watched his father work in the construction industry as a subcontractor. “I grew up going to job sites during the summers starting...

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Dec 18, 2024
  • Ken Buday

Garret Freeman

Garret Freeman admits that he couldn’t quite figure it out. “The first time I came to ECU, it was in 2012 when I graduated high school,” he said. “I came...

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Dec 18, 2024
  • Ken Buday

Ana Harmon

More than two decades had passed since Ana Craig Harmon attended school — and that was in her native Mexico. A lot has happened since. She moved to the United...

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Dec 18, 2024
  • Ken Buday

Breaking Tradition

In the East Carolina University College of Engineering and Technology, 44% of students are considered nontraditional in that they didn’t come to ECU right after high school graduation. Some may...

Three young women, the one in the middle with a purple graduation gown holding flowers, smile and embrace as they pose for a photograph.
Dec 13, 2024
  • Ken Buday

Graduation Celebration

Carlos Schwarzbauer watched as his oldest daughter, Yordana Schwarzbauer, posed for a picture with her younger sisters. “She’s my baby. I’m going to cry again,” he said. Yordana Schwarzbauer had...

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Dec 11, 2024
  • Ken Buday

Twice as Nice

It’s not that twins Sydney and Charlie Bosworth do everything together — well, except for attending the same university, deciding on the same major and graduating on the same day....