ECU Contributor Archives

Dec 07, 2022
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

CITA Foundation grants $50K to boost ECU dental student exam success

A gift to East Carolina University’s School of Dental Medicine will play an essential role in preparing students for success. Each class of dental students must complete an exam for...

Dec 06, 2022
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

ECU believers, visionaries inducted to Leo Jenkins Society

Art, belief and vision sparked excitement and inspired the Dec. 1 celebration of East Carolina University's 2022 Leo W. Jenkins Society inductees. Brilliant purple and gold canvases, painted by artist...

Virginia Hardy, vice chancellor for student affairs, will retire this month after 29 years at East Carolina University.
Dec 06, 2022
  • Jules Norwood

GRACE IN SERVICE

Virginia Hardy, vice chancellor for student affairs, will retire this month after 29 years serving the students of East Carolina University. Hardy, an eastern North Carolina native, was a middle...

Dec 05, 2022
  • Kristen Martin

Honors students create class to increase civic engagement in STEM majors

An increasing amount of research shows that students in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) are less likely to vote than their non-STEM peers, according to data...

East Carolina University maritime studies graduate student Levi Holton, right, and Margaux Tronchet, a member of the University of the French West Indies and Association Archéologie Petites Antilles, record artifacts found on the Tank Bay shipwreck.
Dec 05, 2022
  • Lacey L. Gray

RESEARCHING HIDDEN SHIPWRECKS

For more than 200 years, sailboats and fishing boats have unknowingly passed over the site of a presumed historic shipwreck off the southern coast of the island of Antigua. Now,...

Dec 02, 2022
  • Crystal Baity

ECU wins national walking challenge with 986 miles

East Carolina University students, faculty and staff put one foot in front of the other on their way to winning a national walking challenge in October. A total of 263...

ECU faculty and staff were honored as 2022 Treasured Pirates during a ceremony in Harvey Hall on Wednesday.
Dec 01, 2022
  • Crystal Baity

EXEMPLARY EMPLOYEES

Twenty-seven East Carolina University faculty and staff have received the 2022 Treasured Pirate Awards for their outstanding contributions to ECU. “ECU is proud to have numerous outstanding faculty and staff...

Nov 30, 2022
  • Ken Buday

Staff: James Coker

James Coker knows that not much is needed to get someone hooked on East Carolina University. “The community of ECU to me is just great,” said Coker, the assistant dean...

Nov 30, 2022
  • Spaine Stephens

ECU cardiac psychology program attracts students, national recognition

On the heels of marking its 15th year, East Carolina University’s nationally unique postgraduate program in clinical health psychology continues to gain momentum — and national recognition— through positive patient...

Nov 30, 2022
  • Rob Spahr

ECU’s Laupus Library celebrates more than 120 health sciences authors

More than 120 authors from across East Carolina University’s Health Sciences Campus were honored during Laupus Health Sciences Library’s 17th annual Health Sciences Author Recognition Awards on Nov. 8. The...