ECU News Services Archives

Head football coach, Scottie Montgomery (center), talks with J. Batt (right), senior associate athletic director, and Board of Trustees chairman Steve Jones before Friday’s Board of Trustees meeting. (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Feb 19, 2016
  • Jamie Smith

LEGACY HALL

The East Carolina University Board of Trustees voted unanimously to rename Building 71, formerly Aycock Residence Hall, as Legacy Hall during its regularly scheduled meeting Friday, Feb. 19. The motion...

Feb 18, 2016
  • ECU News Services

ELECTION SEASON

As the primary races heat up in North Carolina leading up to March 15, East Carolina University political science faculty are available to speak to reporters about state and national...

ECU senior and Campus Kitchens shift leader Lekisha Pittman of High Point prepares chicken tenders at Todd Dining Hall. The chicken tenders along with green beans and fruit were being prepared for community partner Operation Sunshine. (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Feb 18, 2016
  • Crystal Baity

MAKING MEALS

The Campus Kitchens Project empowers students to create sustainable solutions to food waste and hunger. In the 2014-2015 academic year, with its highest numbers to date, ECU: Had more than...

Feb 17, 2016
  • ECU News Services

Excels event celebrates student success

East Carolina University’s College of Health and Human Performance recognized its high achieving freshmen and transfer students at an Excels Award Ceremony Feb. 5 at the Murphy Center. The event...

Feb 15, 2016
  • Jules Norwood

SOLE FOOD

Hundreds of pairs of shoes, each with a story to tell, filled the mall near the cupola on East Carolina University’s campus on Feb. 11. The S.H.O.E.S. Project, which stands...

Feb 11, 2016
  • ECU News Services

ECU to celebrate World Anthropology Day

The ECU Department of Anthropology and Anthropology Student Organization will be celebrating World Anthropology Day with an event called "Anthropology After Dark: Parasites, Petra, and Peru" on Thursday, Feb. 18 from 6 -...

ECU doctoral student Dan Blocker and graduate student Meagan Collins are working with Drs. Jake Jensen, foreground, and Matt Fish, not pictured, on a study to determine how confiding in friends about relationship problems is linked to the overall quality of the relationship. (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Feb 11, 2016
  • Kathy Muse

CUPID’S CONFIDANTE

Dan Blocker is learning to pay more attention to where he turns, and why, when it comes to discussing disagreements with his wife. Blocker, a medical family therapy doctoral student...

Chancellor Steve Ballard accepts the Leo M. Lambert Engaged Leader Award from the North Carolina Campus Compact at its 16th annual conference held at High Point University. (Photos by Jay Clark)
Feb 10, 2016
  • Jackie Drake

CHANGING COMMUNITIES

Universities play a leading role in changing communities, and East Carolina University has been recognized as a leader among North Carolina institutions. Chancellor Steve Ballard today received the Leo M....

Randy and Laura Strickland visit occupational therapy students. More occupational therapy graduates will be able to pursue advanced degrees thanks to a scholarship endowment from their bequest. (Photo by Cliff Hollis)
Feb 09, 2016
  • Jackie Drake

CARING FOR THE FUTURE

An increase in private investment over the past year is expanding educational opportunities for health sciences students at East Carolina University and improving quality of care for patients. Through January...

Vashti Kitrell from the Pitt Co. Health Department discusses a display in the lobby of the ECHI with ECU's Xiaoming Zeng during the Mills Symposium. (Photos by Jay Clark)
Feb 08, 2016
  • Jules Norwood

TACKLING TEEN HEALTH

The issues and challenges surrounding teen health were the focus of the 12th annual Jean Mills Health Symposium, held Feb. 5 at the East Carolina Heart Institute at East Carolina...