Ken Buday Archives

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Oct 12, 2026
  • Ken Buday

Students explore career opportunities at ECU PharmaFest

ECU’s PharmaFest connected students to pharmaceutical companies, helping them explore career opportunities in the pharma industry. North Carolina employs more than 76,000 people in the pharmaceutical industry, providing ECU students...

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Oct 09, 2025
  • Ken Buday

Exploring Pharma Careers

Every day, Keaton Caldwell gets closer to graduating from East Carolina University with an engineering degree. And every day, the senior continues to explore her career goals. “I haven’t really...

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Jun 06, 2025
  • Ken Buday

Finding Pharma Knowledge

East Carolina University’s Spring Pharma Conference highlighted industry growth while providing workers an opportunity to “find pharma knowledge.” Nearly 300 people from more than 100 pharmaceutical and life sciences companies...

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...

Oct 18, 2024
  • Ken Buday
  • Steven Grandy

Opportunities in Pharma

East Carolina University students attending PharmaFest on Wednesday sought just one thing. “I’m looking for an opportunity. It doesn’t really matter if it’s an internship or a job. I’m just...

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Jul 31, 2024
  • Ken Buday

Continuing to Learn

William Odom knows education doesn’t end with a degree. The 2022 East Carolina University graduate in chemistry was back on campus to take a two-day course on understanding high performance...

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May 30, 2024
  • Ken Buday

Conference illustrates growth of pharma

The East Carolina University Spring Pharma Conference celebrated its fifth anniversary last week — and celebrated growth in the pharmaceutical industry at the same time. About 200 people attended the...

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Oct 12, 2023
  • Ken Buday

PATHWAYS TO PHARMA

The pharmaceutical industry isn’t just for chemists and biologists anymore, and an event at East Carolina University is designed to show just that. The Eastern Region Pharma Center has scheduled...

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May 23, 2023
  • Ken Buday

PHARMA FRIENDS

East Carolina University’s annual Spring Pharma Conference proved personal for Dr. Jack Pender. “This is a meeting of my pharma friends,” said Pender, director of pharmaceutical training and laboratory services...

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Apr 03, 2023
  • Ken Buday

GROW LOCAL

Seventh grader Mazahri Dantonio took away a big lesson from a tour of the bioprocess engineering labs in East Carolina University’s Life Sciences and Biotechnology Building. “I didn’t know there...