ECU Contributor Archives

Dec 20, 2022
  • Doug Boyd

ECU anthropology course questions pseudoscience in search for solutions

Binge-watching lists for the holidays might include a new Netflix series that proposes survivors of an ice-age cataclysm fanned out across the globe and influenced civilizations from the Andes to...

Dec 19, 2022
  • ECU News Services

Frye named to lead ECU Student Affairs

After a competitive national search, a North Carolina native with more than 22 years of experience working with university students has been named Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs at East...

Dec 19, 2022
  • Matt Smith

ECU 2022: YEAR IN REVIEW

If one word sums up Pirate Nation in 2022, it's "renewal." Pirates returned to campus with a rejuvenated sense of hope in response to COVID-19. Chancellor Philip Rogers was officially...

Dec 19, 2022
  • ECU News Services

VICE CHANCELLOR NAMED

After a competitive national search, a North Carolina native with more than 22 years of experience working with university students has been named Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs at East...

Dec 16, 2022
  • ECU News Services

ECU celebrates nearly 2,000 fall graduates

Nearly 2,000 East Carolina University students graduated today during the university’s fall commencement ceremony in Williams Arena at Minges Coliseum. Chancellor Philip Rogers recognized the many accomplishments of the graduates...

Almost 2,000 graduates were recognized at East Carolina University’s fall 2022 commencement ceremony in Minges Coliseum.
Dec 16, 2022
  • ECU News Services

AUDACITY TO ASPIRE

Nearly 2,000 East Carolina University graduates turned their tassels in Minges Coliseum on Friday, celebrating fall commencement 2022 along with their families, friends, and university faculty, staff and administrators. Chancellor...

Dec 15, 2022
  • Crystal Baity

Hitting finals: Drumming helps students de-stress

The final exam for East Carolina University’s music therapy group activities course was a hit for students in and out of the classroom. Virginia Driscoll’s students set up on the...

Dec 13, 2022
  • Benjamin Abel

Nursing researcher breaks communication barriers with HIV-positive women

One thread that East Carolina University health sciences researchers keep pulling at to unravel the heavy burden of chronic disease in eastern North Carolina is disconnectedness. Many of the people...

Sy Saeed, executive director of NC-STeP, talks to a student from Elizabeth City from his office in Brody. The program was awarded the 2022 Innovation Award for technology from North Carolina’s i2i Center for Integrative Health.
Dec 13, 2022
  • Spaine Stephens

INNOVATIVE HEALTH CARE

The East Carolina University-led North Carolina Statewide Telepsychiatry Program (NC-SteP) has won the 2022 Innovation Award for technology from North Carolina’s i2i Center for Integrative Health. The award celebrates innovation...

ECU graduate with cap and gown standing in front of the cupola.
Dec 11, 2022
  • ECU News Services

GRAD PROFILES FALL 22: PIRATE RESILIENCY

Resiliency is a common theme for many students that make up Pirate Nation. Hard work and dedication are in their DNA and you’ll often find Pirates lending a helping hand...