ECU Now Blog Archives

Dec 04, 2024
  • Steven Grandy

Carruthers leads sea level rise research in the Maldives

An East Carolina University researcher is part of a groundbreaking study that continues to explore the impacts of sea level rise and forest mortality. Dr. Lucy Carruthers, a postdoctoral scholar...

Dec 04, 2024
  • Bobby Ampezzan

Donors, students celebrate scholarships that lighten the load of medical school debt

“It should not be the case that when you cross Interstate 95 you have a different life expectancy,” Dr. Michael Dale Warren told a crowd of donors and medical students...

Dec 02, 2024
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

ECU alumna’s hats are a feather in her business cap

Briley King ’14 did not wait years for the crowning achievement of her fledgling business; she started with one — a handmade trucker hat that can take you from a...

Dec 02, 2024
  • Bobby Ampezzan

Brody School of Medicine’s Dr. Tom Irons honored with Spirit Award

Dr. Thomas “Tom” Irons, a retired East Carolina University Brody School of Medicine professor whose lifetime commitment to rural health care earned him a place in the state of North...

Nov 27, 2024
  • Kim Tilghman

ECU celebrates graduates of Rural Community Capacity program

On Nov. 21, East Carolina University graduated its first participants from the Rural Community Capacity (RC2) program, a statewide initiative focused on building stronger, more competitive and more prosperous rural...

Nov 26, 2024
  • Ronnie Woodward

Health sciences authors recognized with awards

More than 100 authors and a range of health aspects were highlighted at the 18th East Carolina University Health Sciences Author Recognition Awards. Award winners representing the Brody School of...

Nov 25, 2024
  • Ronnie Woodward

Maness earns HHP’s first Fulbright Specialist award

Dr. Sarah Maness is preparing to travel to Ecuador in January as the first person in the East Carolina University College of Health and Human Performance to earn a Fulbright...

Nov 20, 2024
  • Ken Buday

ECU finishes second in national robotics competition

A team of East Carolina University students placed second in the Association of Technology, Management and Applied Engineering (ATMAE) national robotics competition Oct. 28-31 in Las Vegas. The finish continued...

Nov 19, 2024
  • Crystal Baity

ECU First Day prepares for spring after successful rollout

ECU First Day, a textbook and course material program that debuted this fall, has saved East Carolina University undergraduate students who participated more than $2.7 million on the cost of...

Nov 18, 2024
  • Lacey L. Gray

ECU receives Public Interest Technology University Network award

East Carolina University, in partnership with Missouri University of Science and Technology, is a 2024 Network Challenge Grantee awarded by the Public Interest Technology University Network (PIT-UN). PIT-UN projects advance...