ECU Contributor Archives

Sep 28, 2020
  • Crystal Baity

Art professor named distinguished fellow by national society

Dr. Alice Arnold, professor in the East Carolina University School of Art and Design, has been named a Kenneth Marantz Distinguished Fellow by the United States Society for Education through...

Sep 28, 2020
  • Erin Ward

ECU POLL

East Carolina University started a polling center three years ago with the goal of conducting accurate election polling that could garner national attention. With the 2020 election season underway, those...

Sep 25, 2020
  • ECU News Services

ECU announces furloughs for some employees

Because revenues have declined significantly during the coronavirus pandemic, East Carolina University is placing some employees who work in impacted departments on furlough. This does not affect all ECU employees....

Sep 25, 2020
  • ECU News Services

Campus update regarding furloughs

Faculty and Staff: As the interim chancellor, I have been humbled at the dedication you all have shown to ECU and the hard work you put in to making this...

Sep 24, 2020
  • Rich Klindworth

Navigating virtual job interviews

Virtual has become our new normal. And for East Carolina University students heading into their careers, virtual job interviews will most likely be in their foreseeable future. “Virtual interviews might...

Sep 24, 2020
  • Spaine Stephens

MENTAL HEALTH EXPANSION

An East Carolina University team in the Brody School of Medicine’s Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine has received a $1.2 million federal grant to expand telehealth-based mental health services...

Sep 23, 2020
  • Erin Ward

CHILD CARE DURING COVID

When Governor Roy Cooper issued an executive order to shut down K-12 schools in North Carolina in March, Children’s World, a day care center with multiple locations in Greenville, stayed...

Sep 23, 2020
  • ECU News Services

Journalism professors launch Voter411ENC.org

Two East Carolina University journalism professors, Dr. Cindy Elmore and Dr. Brian Massey, have launched a voter information website. The site provides nonpartisan information about local candidates for offices in...

Sep 22, 2020
  • Jules Norwood

PIRATES VOTE

For Purificación Martínez, associate professor of Hispanic studies and chair of the faculty at East Carolina University, voting is personal. As someone who lived under the regime of dictator Francisco...

Sep 21, 2020
  • Matt Smith

NAVAL PARTNERSHIP

East Carolina University and 18 of its Pirate Promise community college collaborators have been selected as partners for the new United States Naval Community College (USNCC) effort. The joint effort...