ECU Contributor Archives

A student sits in the ECU Air Force ROTC flight simulator in Wright Annex.
Oct 11, 2017
  • Crystal Baity

RIGHT OF LINE

East Carolina University’s Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) Detachment 600 has been honored as one of the best in the nation. The group has received the Right of...

Mathin Ange
Oct 09, 2017
  • Bre Lewis

Student: Mathin Ange

Mathin Ange is a senior studying elementary education at East Carolina University. “I applied for a scholarship here and completely fell in love with everyone in the College of Education,”...

Oct 05, 2017
  • ECU News Services

ABOVE THE CHAOS

For weeks, social media feeds and televisions have been filled with harrowing stories of survival from hurricanes, floods and gun violence in the United States. Exposure to these stories may...

Author Colson Whitehead reads from and fields questions about his novel “The Underground Railroad”.
Oct 05, 2017
  • Spaine Stephens

UNDERGROUND RAILROAD

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Colson Whitehead read from his acclaimed novel “The Underground Railroad” to a packed Wright Auditorium Wednesday evening, Oct. 4, the second guest in the Thomas Harriot College...

At left, Dr. Cecil Staton, chancellor of ECU, watches as workers from T.A. Loving/Barnhill prepare the construction beam that was signed by students, staff, faculty and administrators for installation.
Oct 04, 2017
  • Crystal Baity

TOPPING OFF

A tower crane carried the final beam of the new East Carolina University student center to its destination under a beautiful blue, fall sky on Oct. 4. Ten years in...

Students in ECU’s School of Theatre and Dance are performing “Sense and Sensibility” through Oct. 3.
Sep 29, 2017
  • Bre Lewis

TIMELESS LOVE STORY

The Dashwood sisters are still finding their balance in this adaptation to Jane Austen’s “Sense and Sensibility,” which opened Sept. 28 in McGinnis Theatre at East Carolina University. Set in...

Psychiatrist Vivek Anand, right, and research coordinator Janet Benjamin, left, are conducting a study analyzing the brain’s response to smoking imagery.
Sep 28, 2017
  • Jules Norwood

WHY PEOPLE SMOKE

Two years ago, East Carolina University psychiatrist Vivek Anand documented adolescent use of and opinions on electronic cigarettes. Now, he’s pinpointing the mechanisms behind smoking behavior. Anand’s 2015 findings showed...

Lt. Col. April Wimmer, professor of aerospace studies and Lt. Col. Melissa Coleman, professor of military science.
Sep 27, 2017
  • Bre Lewis

CAMPUS MISSION

East Carolina University continues to strengthen its military programs, most recently with the addition of Lt. Col. Melissa Coleman, professor of military science, and Lt. Col. April Wimmer, professor of...

Dr. Darrell Neufer (from left), Dr. John Thyfault and Dr. Chien-Te Lin examine muscle tissue
Sep 25, 2017
  • Jules Norwood

STATINS IN FOCUS

Millions of people in the U.S. take statins, a class of drugs prescribed to lower cholesterol, reducing the risk of heart disease and other health problems. Now, researchers at East...

Zach Daugherty, who earned his accounting degree in 2012 and his MBA in 2015 from ECU, cooks shrimp wrapped in bacon with honey chipotle barbecue sauce.
Sep 21, 2017
  • Doug Boyd

LOW and SLOW

It’s hot. It’s saucy. And come September, it’s a match made in heaven – hog heaven, that is. ECU and BBQ. “Any game that’s three or later, we’re going to...