ECU Contributor Archives

Feb 02, 2021
  • ECU News Services

CET Expert: Mark Hills

Dr. Mark Hills Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director Department of Computer Science College of Engineering and Technology 252-328-9692 hillsma@ecu.edu Areas of Expertise Software engineering, programming languages, mobile and web...

Feb 02, 2021
  • ECU News Services

CET Expert: Michelle Oyen

Dr. Michelle Oyen Associate Professor Department of Engineering College of Engineering and Technology 252-737-7753 oyenm18@ecu.edu Areas of Expertise Bioengineering approaches to the study of pregnancy and childbirth, mechanics of materials,...

Feb 02, 2021
  • ECU News Services

CET Expert: Mark Angolia

Dr. Mark Angolia Assistant Professor Department of Technology Systems College of Engineering and Technology 252-737-1036 angoliam@ecu.edu Areas of Expertise Supply chain efficiency through the application of information technology and best...

Feb 02, 2021
  • Ken Buday

ECU alumnus Steven Guillory Jr. earns world safety award

Steven Guillory Jr. looked everywhere for a graduate level online occupational safety program he felt would help his career. He found that program at East Carolina University, obtaining his master’s...

Feb 02, 2021
  • Ken Buday

FOOD AND FUNDS

The Purple Pantry is open on campus to help East Carolina University students with food insecurity, and now those students will have access to free food 24 hours a day,...

Feb 01, 2021
  • ECU News Services

BREAKING BARRIERS: BLACK HISTORY AT ECU

The following stories were originally published by ECU News Services in 2021. Timeline sources: ECU Joyner Library Desegregation website, ECU Heritage Hall and ECU News Services archives

Feb 01, 2021
  • Kristin Zachary

HISTORY MAKER: LAURA MARIE LEARY

It began as a “why not” conversation between two friends, Dr. Leo Jenkins, then president of East Carolina College, and Dr. Andrew Best, Greenville’s first Black physician. “Why can’t we...

Feb 01, 2021
  • ECU News Services

HISTORY MAKER: LEDONIA S. WRIGHT

A proponent of the health and wellness of minority and low-income populations, North Carolina native Ledonia Smith Wright was a trailblazer. Born on Jan. 5, 1930, in Rockingham, she went...

Feb 01, 2021
  • Kristin Zachary

HISTORY MAKER: BENJAMIN ADRIAN CURRENCE

The doorbell sounded as more than 150 pairs of feet shuffled on the porch, lawn and nearby pavement. It was a Wednesday, and the chill of an early spring night...

Feb 01, 2021
  • ECU News Services

HISTORY MAKER: JOHN HENRY BIZZELL

Long before East Carolina saw desegregation with its students and faculty, a Black man named John Henry Bizzell was an integral part of campus. Bizzell was born in Philadelphia on...