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Mar 24, 2025
  • ECU News Services

Pitt County and ECU unite for R U Ok? Day to promote mental health awareness

Contact: Dr. LaNika Wright, 252-328-6841, wrightla@ecu.edu Event Date: March 26 GREENVILLE, N.C. (3/24/2025) — East Carolina University and its community partners will mark R U OK? Day on March 26 with...

Alt Text description, no acronyms: A group of young men and women stand outside of a brick fortress.
Mar 21, 2025
  • Steven Grandy

ECU business students spend spring break studying in Peru and France

East Carolina University College of Business (COB) students spent spring break in Peru and France as part of two faculty-led immersive trips. Each trip is the highlight of a semester-long...

Mar 10, 2025
  • Bobby Ampezzan

National Academy of Sciences member shares genetics research, hope that assisted reproduction can be safer.

To Dr. Marisa Bartolomei, the investment East Carolina University has made in research is impressive. Last month, the university was granted R1 status by the American Council on Education and...

Group smiling together with foliage decoration in background.
Feb 27, 2025
  • Ronnie Woodward

Lamson awarded for impact, excellence in public service

RALEIGH — Dr. Angela Lamson had a natural and definitive response to the phone call she received informing her she won the 2024 Governor James E. Holshouser, Jr. Award for...

A man wearing glasses and a light blue, collared shirt sits at a desk next to a gray robotic dog that has an East Carolina University Pirate sticker on it.
Feb 17, 2025
  • Ken Buday

Faculty: Dr. Yilei Huang

Perhaps no other dogs on campus receive as many odd looks as Little Dee and Pete, the walking robot dogs that Dr. Yilei Huang takes out every so often. “Most...

Three women stand in front of a white screen in East Carolina University’s Main Campus Student Center. They each hold a different trophy representing their first, second and third place awards in the Three-Minute Thesis competition.
Feb 10, 2025
  • Lacey L. Gray

Shifting the attitude of reporting sports-related head injuries

Xanthia Saganis, an East Carolina University doctoral student in the Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences health psychology program pursuing a concentration in clinical health, is studying athletic injuries....

A man talks and gestures with his hands as he stands on stage in the Main Campus Student Center. There is a podium behind him and the Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences banner beside him.
Feb 04, 2025
  • Lacey L. Gray

Biologist Jeff Corwin stresses adaptability and hope in life and conservation

“In 100 years since the industrial period, humankind has consumed 75% of the planet’s nature,” said Jeff Corwin, television personality, biologist and wildlife conservationist. “Every half hour a species disappears...

Feb 03, 2025
  • Steven Grandy

Polar Bear Plunge delivers splashes and smiles

For East Carolina University junior Kaliyah Crowder, the wait was more than worth it. The hospitality management major from Raleigh took her place at the front of the line at...

Jan 22, 2025
  • Crystal Baity

Online masters’ programs in nursing, criminal justice, education and business lead rankings

East Carolina University’s College of Nursing is the No. 1 online master’s program for public universities in North Carolina and is in the top 10 nationwide in a new ranking...

Group of staff and faculty representing ECU marriage and family therapy and medical family therapy stand together in Harvey Hall room.
Jan 17, 2025
  • ECU News Services

Expert: Dr. Kayla Fitzke

Dr. Kayla Fitzke Assistant Professor College of Health and Human Performance Human Development and Family Science 252-328-6850 fitzkek23@ecu.edu In The News ECU empowering providers to support military spouses Find related...