ECU Contributor Archives

May 13, 2019
  • ECU News Services

Medical students partner with community organization to teach lifesaving techniques

Two future physicians at East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine have partnered with Women for Women Pitt County to help equip local parents with the skills necessary to rescue...

ECU Baja team captain Evan Diener tests the buggy at the Blackjack Mx Off Road Park. (Contributed photos)
May 10, 2019
  • Jules Norwood

BAJA REBORN

Even in high school, Evan Diener was interested in building a Baja buggy. “I had seen this program at other colleges, and it was something I was really interested in,”...

East Carolina University biology professor Chris Balakrishnan has been appointed as a temporary program director with the National Science Foundation’s Evolutionary Processes Cluster. The position allows Balakrishnan to make recommendations about which NSF research proposals to fund.
May 08, 2019
  • Matt Smith

NATIONAL APPOINTMENT

An East Carolina University associate professor will have the chance to shape science funding at the national level during the next two years. Chris Balakrishnan, a faculty member in the...

May 08, 2019
  • ECU News Services

ECU associate professor receives inaugural Mellon/ACLS Scholars & Society Fellowship

Dr. Helena Feder, director of East Carolina University’s Great Books Program and associate professor of literature and environment, is one of the inaugural recipients of the Mellon/American Council of Learned...

May 07, 2019
  • Jules Norwood

‘KEY LEADERSHIP’

Dr. Allison Danell, associate professor of chemistry, has been appointed interim dean of East Carolina University’s Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences (THCAS) effective July 1, pending approval by...

May 06, 2019
  • ECU News Services

Danell named interim dean of ECU’s Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences

Dr. Allison Danell, associate professor of chemistry, has been appointed interim dean of East Carolina University’s Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences (THCAS) effective July 1, pending approval by...

May 04, 2019
  • Crystal Baity
  • Jules Norwood

IN THE SPOTLIGHT

Actor Emily Procter turned the spotlight on more than 5,200 East Carolina University graduates on Friday. The ECU alumna and North Carolina native encouraged the students to persevere through challenges...

May 03, 2019
  • ECU News Services

ECU graduates more than 5,200 during spring commencement exercises

Actor Emily Procter turned the spotlight on more than 5,200 East Carolina University graduates on Friday. The ECU alumna and North Carolina native encouraged the students to persevere through challenges...

More than 4,100 students will graduate during spring commencement.
May 03, 2019
  • ECU News Services

TURN YOUR TASSELS

East Carolina University's graduating class of spring 2019 includes more than 4,100 students who will receive their degree during Friday's commencement ceremony. Among them are students with high aspirations, like...

May 03, 2019
  • Kristin Zachary

Graduate video profile: Juliana Lane

Screenwriters often use their own life experiences as inspiration — a method East Carolina University senior Juliana Lane, a film and video production major in the School of Art and Design, implemented...