Rachel Cessna Archives

Sep 18, 2024
  • ECU Health News

Brody among top medical schools where students graduate with lowest debt

The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University is among the top-performing medical schools in the country when it comes to providing an affordable education for future clinicians, according...

Sep 16, 2024
  • Ken Buday

ECU marks Pollution Prevention Week

East Carolina University is marking Pollution Prevention Week with activities while highlighting efforts on campus as well as with partners off campus to save energy and reduce costs. ECU Sustainability...

Sep 11, 2024
  • Benjamin Abel

Pirate Nurse takes flight over eastern NC to save lives

As a boy, Hunter Venters walked the fields of his family’s farms near Chicod in southern Pitt County. From time-to-time small planes would fly overhead. Venters doesn’t remember wanting to...

Sep 04, 2024
  • ECU News Services

Expert: Dr. Ariane Peralta

Dr. Ariane Peralta Associate Professor Department of Biology 252-328-2712 peraltaa@ecu.edu Website Areas of Expertise Ecology, Evolution, Microbiology, Quantitative Biology and Bioinformatics, Science Education Find related experts Search all ECU experts...

Sep 04, 2024
  • ECU News Services

Expert: Dr. Susan McRae

Dr. Susan McRae Teaching Professor Department of Biology 252-328-6515 mcraes@ecu.edu Website Areas of Expertise Behavioral Biology, Ecology, Evolution, Genetics; Ornithology; Study of the eastern Bluebirds, Ruff Sandpipers, and Rail species,...

Sep 04, 2024
  • ECU News Services

Expert: Dr. Marame Gueye

Dr. Marame Gueye Associate Professor Department of English 252-328-6702 gueyem@ecu.edu Website Areas of Expertise African and African Diaspora Literature; African Women’s Verbal Art; World Literature; Multicultural and Transnational Literature; Global...

Dr. Jack Pender poses for a photo in a lab in the Science and Technology Building. (ECU Photo by Rhett Butler)
Sep 03, 2024
  • Lacey L. Gray

Staff: Dr. Jack Pender

In any lab, Dr. Jack Pender is professional but easily approachable with a big smile. His role at East Carolina University blurs the lines between faculty and staff. He teaches...

Jun 25, 2024
  • Benjamin Abel

Nursing faculty members selected for national Health Equity Influencers Program

Two East Carolina University nursing professors have been accepted to a national program aimed at addressing health care inequities and ensuring that nursing education programs are inclusive. Drs. Brittany Baker...

Jun 24, 2024
  • ECU News Services

ECU students selected to SECU Public Fellows internship program

A group of East Carolina University students are spending the summer working with organizations that make a difference for the residents of eastern North Carolina. The State Employees’ Credit Union...

May 06, 2024
  • Lacey L. Gray

Harriot College names 2024 Dean’s Early Career awardees

The dean of East Carolina University’s Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences has named three faculty members as recipients of the prestigious 2024 Dean’s Early Career Award. Typically awarded...