ECU Contributor Archives

May 17, 2018
  • ECU News Services

Remains of a possible 1619 Dutch privateer identified in Bermuda

East Carolina University archaeologists working in partnership with the National Museum of Bermuda (NMB) have announced that they may be one step closer to linking an unidentified shipwreck site to...

May 15, 2018
  • ECU News Services

North Carolina Literary Review accepting submissions, increasing honorarium

The North Carolina Literary Review is accepting submissions for the 2018 Alex Albright Creative Nonfiction Prize. Submissions are being accepted May 15 through July 1. Randall Kenan, professor in the...

May 14, 2018
  • Bre Lewis

Student: Peter Eischens

Peter Eischens is a second-year doctoral student in the rehabilitation counseling and administration program at East Carolina University. He earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at St. Cloud State University,...

May 09, 2018
  • ECU News Services

Fraternity closed by national organization

The Phi Kappa Tau national organization has announced the closure of the Gamma Eta chapter after an investigation conducted by the organization in collaboration with and supported by the university....

Dr. Lisa Callahan delivered the convocation address at Brody School of Medicine’s graduation on Saturday.
May 08, 2018
  • Rob Spahr

BRODY ALUMNA RETURNS TO ECU

Dr. Lisa Callahan’s life has not played out according to plan. But that’s only because she is not a fan of planning. Instead, Callahan – a 1983 East Carolina University...

May 05, 2018
  • Crystal Baity
  • Jules Norwood

THE BUSINESS OF SUCCESS

Fireworks flew and tassels turned on a beautiful spring night in Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium as 5,479 students graduated from East Carolina University on May 4. The fireworks capped off a new...

May 04, 2018
  • ECU News Services

ECU graduates 5,479 students, holds fireworks display

Fireworks flew and tassels turned on a beautiful spring night in Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium as 5,479 students graduated from East Carolina University on May 4. The fireworks capped off a new...

After a successful kidney transplant, Brandon Hodges (left) said he “feels amazing.”
Apr 26, 2018
  • ECU Contributor

NEW LEASE ON LIFE

“It was a life-changing experience.” That’s how Brandon Hodges describes the kidney transplant he received a couple of months ago at Vidant Medical Center (VMC). Hodges, 42, is a physical...

Photography by Rob Goldberg
Apr 25, 2018
  • Bre Lewis

Student: Rachel Renfrow

Rachel Renfrow is a senior business management major from Wilson, a midfielder and center back for the ECU women’s soccer team, and a standout student in the College of Business....

Conservators at the Queen Anne’s Revenge Project lift a cannon out of its tank during the lab’s annual open house. (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Apr 24, 2018
  • Jules Norwood

SCIENCE AND PIRATES

FIRE! The blast of a cannon ripped through the air to the delight of onlookers outside the Queen Anne’s Revenge Conservation Laboratory at East Carolina University during the fourth annual...