October 2017 Archives

A student sits in the ECU Air Force ROTC flight simulator in Wright Annex.
Oct 11, 2017
  • Crystal Baity

RIGHT OF LINE

East Carolina University’s Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) Detachment 600 has been honored as one of the best in the nation. The group has received the Right of...

Mathin Ange
Oct 09, 2017
  • Bre Lewis

Student: Mathin Ange

Mathin Ange is a senior studying elementary education at East Carolina University. “I applied for a scholarship here and completely fell in love with everyone in the College of Education,”...

Oct 06, 2017
  • ECU News Services

Students create money management and budgeting course for transitional homeless residents

A group of graduate students in the East Carolina University School of Social Work recently created a money management and budgeting course for the transitional homeless population living in Jacksonville....

Oct 05, 2017
  • ECU News Services

ABOVE THE CHAOS

For weeks, social media feeds and televisions have been filled with harrowing stories of survival from hurricanes, floods and gun violence in the United States. Exposure to these stories may...

Oct 05, 2017
  • ECU News Services

Talking to children about recent tragedies

For weeks, social media feeds and televisions have been filled with harrowing stories of survival from hurricanes, floods and gun violence in the United States. Exposure to these stories may...

Oct 05, 2017
  • ECU News Services

Laupus Library’s exhibited woodcarvings showcase a lifetime of love

Laupus Library opened the art exhibit “Visions in Wood: Carved Creations,” during an Oct. 3 reception in the Evelyn Fike Laupus Gallery on the fourth floor of the library. On...

Author Colson Whitehead reads from and fields questions about his novel “The Underground Railroad”.
Oct 05, 2017
  • Spaine Stephens

UNDERGROUND RAILROAD

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Colson Whitehead read from his acclaimed novel “The Underground Railroad” to a packed Wright Auditorium Wednesday evening, Oct. 4, the second guest in the Thomas Harriot College...

Oct 05, 2017
  • ECU News Services

Commencement Information for those who missed the Grad Expo

Missed the Grad Expo? No worries! Fall graduates can pick up their cap and gown at Dowdy Student Stores in Wright Building during any regular business hours. Medical and Dental students will...

At left, Dr. Cecil Staton, chancellor of ECU, watches as workers from T.A. Loving/Barnhill prepare the construction beam that was signed by students, staff, faculty and administrators for installation.
Oct 04, 2017
  • Crystal Baity

TOPPING OFF

A tower crane carried the final beam of the new East Carolina University student center to its destination under a beautiful blue, fall sky on Oct. 4. Ten years in...

Oct 04, 2017
  • ECU News Services

ECU performing arts series to help celebrate N.C. Arts Council’s 50th anniversary

East Carolina University’s S. Rudolph Alexander Performing Arts Series is one of 170 organizations across North Carolina to participate in a statewide arts celebration of the 50th anniversary of the North...