ECU Contributor Archives

Jun 17, 2021
  • Spaine Stephens

ECU cardiologist earns national award for outstanding work in science and medicine

Dr. Blase Carabello has been awarded the 2020-2021 Harriet P. Dustan Award for Outstanding Work in Science as Related to Medicine from the American College of Physicians (ACP). Carabello is...

Jun 16, 2021
  • Kristen Martin

EDIBLE LANDSCAPE

A group of East Carolina University Honors College students sought to improve sustainability by creating an orchard on campus. “Our mission is to serve college campuses by giving students the...

Jun 16, 2021
  • Erin Ward

Alumna’s business closed during COVID. She donated money to student scholarships anyway.

Painting and pottery are hands-on, in-person activities. When a Greenville paint-your-own pottery studio couldn’t allow people inside because of pandemic restrictions, its owner had to get creative quickly. In October...

Jun 16, 2021
  • ECU News Services

Five earn certification from ECU Economic Development Academy

In the first designation of its kind, five members of East Carolina University’s Economic Development Academy were named North Carolina Certified Economic Developers. Each member of the inaugural class completed...

Jun 15, 2021
  • Crystal Baity

EARLY DETECTION

East Carolina University’s successful wastewater testing program for COVID-19 has paused for the summer but will start again when students return to campus in August. “The wastewater program was an...

Jun 15, 2021
  • Doug Boyd

STICKER SHOCK

Have you seen the internet meme of a dressed-to-the-nines couple having dinner in a lumber yard? It reads, “Take me somewhere expensive!” Expensive is the word that best describes lumber...

Jun 14, 2021
  • Lacey L. Gray

ECU students gain real-world experience interpreting data on seafloor earthquakes

Dr. Meg Blome, teaching assistant professor of geological sciences at East Carolina University, regularly teaches more than 50 students in an introductory oceanography course, but only half of those students...

Jun 11, 2021
  • Natalie Sayewich

MAPPING COVID-19

When limited resources prevent everyone from having immediate access to COVID-19 vaccines, how do you determine who needs them most urgently? Where are they located? How can you get the...

Jun 10, 2021
  • Jules Norwood

RETURN TO TUSCANY

A fortunate few East Carolina University students will spend the fall semester in Certaldo Alto, Italy, through the ECU Tuscany study abroad program, which received the green light this week...

Jun 09, 2021
  • Lacey L. Gray

ECU receives a National Endowment for the Arts Big Read grant

East Carolina University is one of 61 organizations nationwide selected to receive a 2021-22 National Endowment for the Arts Big Read grant. The grant project, directed by Dr. Marianne Montgomery,...