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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...

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 young woman wearing a purple graduation gown stands at left with her arms crossed next to a young man in a purple graduation gown standing with his arms crossed.
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....

Two young men, one in a short-sleeved shirt and the other in a hooded sweatshirt, sit at a table and look at a laptop computer.
Dec 09, 2024
  • Ken Buday

Cyber Success

A team of East Carolina University students finished in the top 2% of the country during the National Cyber League’s national cybersecurity competition Nov. 8-10. “We’re thrilled with our standing...

A young woman smiles as she looking through the opening of a metal container.
Dec 02, 2024
  • Ken Buday

Engineering Exhibited

Students exhibited the very definition of engineering during East Carolina University’s Department of Engineering Capstone Symposium in the Main Campus Student Center. “There’s always going to be something to go...

A smiling man in a black shirt uses a small wrench to fasten two pieces of metal.
Nov 20, 2024
  • Ken Buday

Bot Battle

A team of East Carolina University students placed second in the Association of Technology, Management and Applied Engineering (ATMAE) national robotics competition Oct. 28-31 in Las Vegas. The finish continued...

Four people wearing ECU construction hard hats sit at a table and sign documents.
Nov 11, 2024
  • Ken Buday

Signing Day

Signing day is known as the day high school athletes commit to play for a particular university. Last week at East Carolina University, four construction management students put pen to...

A woman wearing a black shirt sitting at a table gestures with her hand in the air as she talks to another woman sitting at the table with orange, black, yellow and white balloons in the background.
Nov 01, 2024
  • Ken Buday

Peer Project

When East Carolina University computer science student Qanitah Danial began searching for an internship, she didn’t know where to turn. “I had a terrible experience because I was running across...