CRIMINAL JUSTICE
When Major Karen Riggsbee ’88 was promoted to deputy chief of the Raleigh Police Department this summer, she became one of the top three leaders in an agency that employs...
Rachel Cessna Archives
RECOGNIZING INTERNATIONALIZATION
East Carolina University celebrated International Education Week on Nov. 15 as faculty, staff and students were recognized for their commitment to growing internationalization at the university. This was the second...
DENTAL STUDENTS DON WHITE COATS
The ECU School of Dental Medicine bestowed clinical white coats upon 51 students in the Class of 2021 during a ceremony on the evening of Nov. 8. The event signaled...
STUDENT STARTUPS
East Carolina University is launching an innovative new strategy to help revitalize communities in eastern North Carolina, turning to its students to develop and support new enterprises in the region....
DANCE DAY
Fifty high school students imagined what it would be like to major in dance on Oct. 26 when East Carolina University’s School of Theatre and Dance held College Dance Day....
Student: De’Mone’ Jordan
De'Mone’ Jordan has spent the last year creating and starting a program for elementary school girls that attend Building Hope Community Life Center. Jordan graduated with her bachelor’s degree in social work...
THIRTEEN TEAMS ADVANCE
The second Pirate Entrepreneurship Challenge, the signature pitch competition of ECU and the College of Business’ Miller School of Entrepreneurship (MSOE), wrapped up its first round Tuesday, Oct. 23. Thirteen...
COASTAL FOCUS
East Carolina University has renewed its commitment to coastal science by creating a new academic unit called Integrated Coastal Programs, which encompasses the Department of Coastal Studies and the Coastal...
STUDENT SERVICE
When Kay Boyd started working at East Carolina University in September 1973, Mendenhall Student Center wasn’t even quite complete. Her first job was answering calls at the switchboard, where the...
TEENS AND TOBACCO
A study published today in JAMA Pediatrics by researchers at East Carolina University and Stanford University examined tobacco sales to minors over a five-year period at more than 13,000 pharmacies...