ECU News Services Archives

ECU participants in a collaborative research project include coastal resource management doctoral student Zaneta Adme, left, and ECU economics professor Andrew Keeler. They are working with researchers from N.C. State University and UNC - Chapel Hill to examine the feasibility of deriving energy from coastal waters. (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Apr 01, 2015
  • Doug Boyd

GAME-CHANGING RESEARCH

Researchers from East Carolina University, N.C. State University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Coastal Studies Institute will begin work this summer on a project that...

Mar 31, 2015
  • Kelly Setzer

SHARED GOVERNANCE

While the world looks quite different than it did in March 1965 during their first official meeting, East Carolina University’s Faculty Senate still convenes to guide university policy exactly as...

Crowds of visitors stream into Jarvis Hall during Admitted Student Day on campus March 28. (Photo by Cliff Hollis)
Mar 31, 2015
  • ECU News Services

PIRATES ABOARD!

With close to 5,000 guests in attendance for Pirates Aboard! Admitted Student Day, campus was buzzing with activity on March 28. Future students and their families spent the day gathering...

Mar 31, 2015
  • ECU News Services

Eble Named President of Technical Writing Organization

Dr. Michelle F. Eble, associate professor in the Department of English at East Carolina University, was named president of the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing at the organization’s annual...

Mar 30, 2015
  • ECU News Services

Phil Kirk to address Honors College students

Phil Kirk of Raleigh, who chaired the State Board of Education for six years and led the state chamber of commerce for 16 years, will address Honors College students on...

Mar 30, 2015
  • ECU News Services

He popped the question at a special place – the Rivers Building

The Rivers Building holds special memories for Jamar Sampson and Faith Fleming, both graduated from East Carolina University with psychology degrees in 2013. It’s where both worked part-time jobs. It’s...

Photo by Cliff Hollis
Mar 30, 2015
  • ECU News Services

HANDS-ON ENTERTAINMENT

The 11th Annual Youth Arts Festival brought children of all ages to campus March 28 despite cold, damp weather that moved the festival inside the Jenkins Fine Arts Building. More...

Mar 30, 2015
  • Crystal Baity

‘PRIMED TO LEAD’

Dr. Grant Hayes has been named dean and distinguished professor of the College of Education at East Carolina University. Hayes is professor of counselor education and interim dean of the...

Mar 27, 2015
  • ECU News Services

Annual Brody tradition features student service

One week before they found out where they were headed to complete residency as doctors-in-training, the Brody School of Medicine’s Class of 2015 had only others’ futures on their minds....

Kidney recipient Roger Woolard, second from right, and donor Robin Melendez, right, speak to the press during a press conference announcing a successful kidney swap and transplant performed by physicians from the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University and Eastern Urological Associates. (Photos by Jay Clark)
Mar 27, 2015
  • Amy Adams Ellis

MEETING THEIR MATCHES

The four donors and recipients involved in a recent kidney exchange at Vidant Medical Center met all together for the first time March 27 on the medical center campus. The...