Portland’s new poet laureate is an ECU alum
ECU graduate Maya Williams ’17 is the newest poet laureate for Portland, Maine. The honorary position is awarded to a Portland resident who “is both an accomplished poet and an...
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Queen of beach reads: Alumna Kristy Woodson Harvey talks latest novel
East Carolina University alumna Kristy Woodson Harvey ’10 regularly finds herself on lists like Southern Living’s Most Anticipated Beach Reads, Huffington Post’s Summer Reading and the News & Observer‘s Best...
LEGACY OF LIGHT
East Carolina University alumnus Howell Binkley earned a reputation on Broadway as the lighting master behind shows including “Jersey Boys,” “In the Heights” and the blockbuster “Hamilton.” But he was...
Alumna’s business closed during COVID. She donated money to student scholarships anyway.
Painting and pottery are hands-on, in-person activities. When a Greenville paint-your-own pottery studio couldn’t allow people inside because of pandemic restrictions, its owner had to get creative quickly. In October...
STICKER SHOCK
Have you seen the internet meme of a dressed-to-the-nines couple having dinner in a lumber yard? It reads, “Take me somewhere expensive!” Expensive is the word that best describes lumber...
Student: Kateryna Kosolapova
Creating the “People of Greenville” podcast helped fulfill Kateryna “Kate” Kosolapova’s dream of telling other people’s stories. She grew up watching TV hosts and news anchors and pored through magazines...
YouTube star MrBeast donates tech to ECU students
One of the most-subscribed YouTube creators in the country stopped by East Carolina University to donate more than $27,000 in laptops, iPads and headsets. MrBeast, the famously generous YouTuber whose...
Two new millipede species named for ECU employees
What’s long and flat, has many pairs of jointed legs, and is named for an East Carolina University employee? Two newly described species of millipedes, Nannaria breweri and Nannaria spruilli,...
FLYING FISH
Scott Eagle’s “School of Flying Fish” mural has made the jump from Greenville all the way to Beijing in a showcase of American street art at the U.S. Embassy. Eagle,...
ENCOURAGING ARCHAEOLOGICAL DIVERSITY
Preserving history and heritage is a prominent goal in the field of archaeology, and East Carolina University’s Maritime Studies Program helps students gain the knowledge to meet that goal through...