ECU Contributor Archives

ECU graduate school student Sydney Frank posing for a photo
Jun 01, 2023
  • Benjamin Abel

Student: Sydney Frank

Sydney Frank always knew she wanted to be one to help others. During her undergraduate psychology education at Villanova, she figured that physical therapy would be the right fit. After...

Roger Russell, associate director of Laupus Library, and Jamie Bloss, library associate professor and Laupus liaison librarian, partnered to lead a grant to improve digital literacy and broadband access for migrant farmworkers.
May 31, 2023
  • Benjamin Abel

LITERACY GRANT

A librarian-led research project funded by a nearly $750,000 Institute of Museum and Library Services National Leadership Grant will assess migrant and seasonal farmworkers’ literacy and access to broadband service...

Wanda Lancaster, concentration director of East Carolina University's Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner program, lectures nursing students. The PMHNP program trains health care professionals to evaluate and treat mental health conditions.
May 30, 2023
  • Benjamin Abel

PSYCHIATRIC CARE

Recent reports suggest that the nation’s mental health is suffering even greater post-pandemic, with adults reporting record rates of depression and anxiety, and young adults reporting significant behavioral health disorders....

Nearly 100 fifth grade students from two North Carolina elementary schools visited East Carolina University this spring to tour the campus and learn about the educational, recreational and career possibilities available to them as future Pirates.
May 25, 2023
  • Lacey L. Gray

EXPANDING YOUNG MINDS

This spring, East Carolina University’s Office of Undergraduate Admissions and the Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences partnered to bring nearly 100 elementary students to tour the ECU campus...

May 24, 2023
  • Ken Buday

ECU conference highlights pharmaceutical industry

East Carolina University’s annual Spring Pharma Conference proved personal for Jack Pender. “This is a meeting of my pharma friends,” said Pender, director of pharmaceutical training and laboratory services in...

Rukiya Van Dross is developing a first-of-its-kind immunotherapy for cancer and is the founder of Claradele Pharmaceuticals. Research like hers could benefit from the work of NCInnovation, a nonprofit created to foster innovation in North Carolina.
May 23, 2023
  • Jules Norwood

INNOVATION HUB

Thanks in part to university research, North Carolina has great potential for research and development but trails other states in commercializing that research, according to NCInnovation, a nonprofit formed to...

May 23, 2023
  • Meaghan Skelly

Brody’s Continuing Medical Education Program receives Accreditation with Commendation

The quality of health care and continuing medical education in eastern North Carolina continues to improve as the Brody School of Medicine's Continuing Medical Education (CME) program has been awarded...

May 22, 2023
  • ECU News Services

Public urged to keep an eye out for spotted lanternflies as they eat their way south

Agriculture officials are asking the public to keep an eye out for the spotted lanternfly, an invasive species that poses a significant threat to woody plants and a nuisance to...

May 22, 2023
  • Doug Boyd

Public urged to keep an eye out for spotted lanternflies as they eat their way south

Babak Bakhtiar had an emphatic response when asked if any spotted lanternflies had been found at his family’s Crosskeys Vineyards in Mt. Crawford, Virginia. “That’s like a curse word to...

A student on one of East Carolina University Assistant Professor Rebecca Asch’s field trips holds a menhaden, a small pelagic fish located along the North Carolina coast.
May 22, 2023
  • Lacey L. Gray

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES

East Carolina University faculty and students in the Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences are researching range-expanding marine species and changing fish populations, as well as the effects climate...