ECU Now Blog Archives

Jul 11, 2023
  • Lacey L. Gray

ECU to assist international team on $1.5M funded rural, community research project

Two East Carolina University professors in the Thomas Harriot College of Art and Sciences are part of an international team who will spend the next five years researching and implementing community-based...

Jul 07, 2023
  • Benjamin Abel

ECU nursing student uses language, cultural skills to improve rural health care delivery

The majority of the counties in eastern North Carolina are classified as rural. While the state saw a downtick in migration overall in recent years, foreign immigrants moving to the...

Jul 05, 2023
  • Lacey L. Gray

ECU program impacts eastern NC

Ajamu A. Dillahunt-Holloway is leaving a lasting impression at East Carolina University and in the region, resulting from his work as a fellow through the Interinstitutional Scholar for Diversity and...

Jun 26, 2023
  • Lacey L. Gray

ECU’s Harriot College announces Department of Economics chair

Tisha Emerson will be joining East Carolina University’s Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences on July 1 as the James E. and Constance Paul Distinguished Professor and chair of the...

Jun 22, 2023
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

NC-STeP sites selected to provide mental health services for children

Six pediatric primary care sites have been selected to provide mental health services for children and adolescents in North Carolina as part of the expansion of the North Carolina Statewide Telepsychiatry...

Jun 21, 2023
  • Spaine Stephens

Four students named to dental school’s newest cohort of Summer Research Scholars

Four students in the East Carolina University School of Dental Medicine’s Class of 2027 have been named Summer Research Scholars. They are working alongside dental school faculty on research projects...

Jun 19, 2023
  • Kristen Martin

ECU receives A+ for elementary education literacy programs

East Carolina University’s undergraduate educator preparation program has earned an A+ rating from the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ), a recognition given to only 48 schools nationally for elementary...

Jun 15, 2023
  • Kristen Martin

Grant provides scholarships, microcredentials to future teachers

Three East Carolina University faculty members have been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to address the shortage of secondary math and science teachers, especially in rural, high-need school...

Jun 14, 2023
  • Spaine Stephens

ECU medical, dental students selected as NC Schweitzer Fellows

Eight East Carolina University medical and dental students have been named to the 2023-24 class of the North Carolina Albert Schweitzer Fellowship (NCASF) program. Two students from the School of...

Jun 12, 2023
  • Lacey L. Gray

Vance-Chalcraft receives 2023 Harriot College Dean’s Early Career Award

East Carolina University’s Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences has awarded Heather Vance-Chalcraft, assistant professor of biology, the prestigious 2023 Dean’s Early Career Award. Established in 2015 through the...