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Left to right, Shelley Tripp, a teacher at Bethel School, keys in information for a robot she built with rising seventh-graders Daeshawn Smith and Alyssa Mayo during the inaugural Advanced Manufacturing and Innovation Academy held at ECU. The entrepreneurship, science, technology, engineering, art and design and math or eSTEAM academy was funded by a $1.25 million Golden LEAF Foundation grant. (Photo by Cliff Hollis)
Jul 02, 2015
  • Crystal Baity

INNOVATORS IN ACTION

Rising seventh-grader Alyssa Mayo had never built a robot much less programmed one to move, turn and scoop up a ping pong ball. But she and 40 other middle school...

Jul 02, 2015
  • ECU News Services

Gudivada named computer science chair

Dr. Venkat N. Gudivada has been named chairman of the Department of Computer Science in the College of Engineering and Technology at East Carolina University effective July 1. Gudivada is...

The Nancy Darden Child Development Center provides child care while offering hands-on experiences for ECU students seeking to learn about early childhood development and education. Pictured above, left to right, preschoolers Sutton Norris and Marai Blanchard enjoy reading time with Breania Best, a teacher assistant in the preschool classroom. (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Jul 01, 2015
  • Kathy Muse

AT DARDEN CENTER

Gray skies and a day-long drizzle prompted a science lesson in teacher Jessica Pate’s preschool classroom in the East Carolina University Nancy Darden Child Development Center. “After it rains, the...

Jul 01, 2015
  • ECU News Services

Ballard to step down as ECU chancellor in 2016

Chancellor Steve Ballard announced today he will step down as East Carolina University's top leader next year, serving in his current role until July 1, 2016. Ballard has served as...

Jun 29, 2015
  • ECU News Services

COMMON INSPIRATION

The theme of this year’s issue of the award-winning North Carolina Literary Review is “North Carolina Literature in a Global Context.” The print issue features cover art by Chapel Hill...

Jun 29, 2015
  • Crystal Baity

FIERY FISH

A 7-foot ceramic fish wowed more than 100 people who watched its fiery debut June 26 on the edge of East Carolina University’s campus. A nearly two-week, laborious process culminated...

Jun 26, 2015
  • ECU News Services

J.H. Rose High, Tar River Writing Project awarded $20,000 grant

Students and teachers from J.H. Rose High School in Greenville were on ECU’s campus June 15-19 working with staff from the Tar River Writing Project developing plans to implement an...

Jun 25, 2015
  • ECU News Services

Scholarship honors first African-American undergraduate

Joseph Bryant, a junior from Greensboro, is the initial recipient of the Laura Marie Leary Elliott Memorial Scholarship, which was created in memory of the first African-American to earn an...

ECU graduate student Matt Gallagher, left, talks with an equipment operator at Cherry Research Farm in Goldsboro as part of a N.C. Agromedicine Institute program to improve operator comfort. ECU's involvement in the Agromedicine Institute is one of the attributes that helped ECU earn the designation of an Innovation and Economic Prosperity University from the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities. (Photo by Cliff Hollis)
Jun 24, 2015
  • Doug Boyd

ECONOMIC ENGINE

In recognition of its strong commitment to economic engagement, East Carolina University has been designated as an Innovation and Economic Prosperity University by the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities....

UNC Pembroke Chancellor Kyle Carter and East Carolina University Chancellor Steve Ballard sign a memorandum of understanding that will establish a satellite program for ECU's doctorate in physical therapy at UNCP. The agreement aims to prepare more physical therapists for eastern North Carolina. (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Jun 24, 2015
  • Kathryn Kennedy

SOUTHEAST SATELLITE

A new partnership between East Carolina University and the University of North Carolina at Pembroke aims to increase the number of physical therapists working in eastern North Carolina. ECU Chancellor...