ECU Now Blog Archives

Feb 10, 2023
  • Ronnie Woodward

Faculty honored for authorship, promoting student affordability

The process of authoring or editing a book was rewarded, along with faculty use of free course materials to benefit student affordability, during an awards ceremony Wednesday at the East...

Feb 10, 2023
  • Kristen Martin

Study finds lack of diversity in health stock photo libraries

A class assignment during his first year of college opened the door for East Carolina University Honors College alumnus Zach Chichester to publish a study highlighting how the lack of...

Feb 09, 2023
  • Benjamin Abel

ECU College of Nursing honors its preceptors of the year

When many think of a university education, the images that often come to mind are those of young adults sitting in neat rows in a lecture hall. Nursing students’ practical...

Feb 08, 2023
  • Hannah Eccleston

Ledonia Wright Cultural Center hosts first mixed-media student art exhibit

Students at East Carolina University are displaying their artwork in the “Black Resistance: A Celebration of Black History” exhibit in the Ledonia Wright Cultural Center (LWCC). This is the first...

Feb 07, 2023
  • Lacey L. Gray

ECU anthropology professor selected for distinguished professorship in international studies

East Carolina University professor of anthropology Megan Perry has been selected for the Thomas W. Rivers Distinguished Professorship for International Studies in the Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences....

Feb 03, 2023
  • Kristen Martin

Student illustrations bring new life to 19th century manuscripts

It all started with an email. East Carolina University Honors College student Delaney Meginniss read an email about a possible job for art majors or those interested in art and...

Feb 02, 2023
  • Kim Tilghman

ECU student planning project helps town revitalization

The town of Maysville in Jones County is celebrating the award of an $850,000 American Rescue Plan grant to revitalize its main street — and an East Carolina University class...

Feb 02, 2023
  • ECU Advancement

Pirate dental student earns inaugural Osborne scholarship

Alexis Lollis ’21, a first-year student at East Carolina University's School of Dental Medicine, has been chosen as the inaugural recipient of the Dr. Colin Osborne Jr. Scholarship. Named in...

Feb 01, 2023
  • Benjamin Abel

Occupational therapy, dental students work to build hand strength, relationships

A two-minute walk across East Carolina University’s Health Sciences Campus was all it took for students to break down barriers and build interdisciplinary relationships. On an overcast Thursday, eight second-year...

Jan 31, 2023
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

ECU farm to clinic program boosts nutrition initiative

East Carolina University students are all in for experiential learning opportunities, especially when it comes to the farm to clinic program in the College of Allied Health Sciences’ Department of...