ECU Now Blog Archives

Nov 15, 2021
  • Erin Ward

A Pirate’s pecan pie recipe

Pecan pie is a Southern staple and a perfect dessert for holiday meals. With Thanksgiving just around the corner, we asked a certified pecan expert for her go-to pie recipe....

Nov 12, 2021
  • Spaine Stephens

ECU medical, dental schools partner to improve telehealth access

Faculty in East Carolina University’s Division of Health Sciences are collaborating on grant-funded efforts to enhance connectivity for home-based telehealth primary care access for patients in rural eastern North Carolina...

Nov 11, 2021
  • Crystal Baity

ECU alumna, Army reservist uses communication skills in the field

In deployment or at home, alumna Missy Ritt uses the skills she learned at East Carolina University every day. Her communication degrees led her to the behavioral health field, where...

Nov 10, 2021
  • Kristen Martin

Partnership Teach celebrates 20 years, 1,000 graduates

East Carolina University’s Partnership Teach program celebrated 20 years of operation and more than 1,000 graduates during its Nov. 3 joint advisory board meeting with the Latham Clinical Schools Network....

Nov 09, 2021
  • Kelly Rogers Dilda

Neuroscience symposium features ECU medical school alumnus turned Harvard researcher

A Brody School of Medicine alumnus revisited his roots recently when he headlined a neuroscience symposium on campus. The Eastern Carolina Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience (ECCSfN) held its 23rd...

Nov 08, 2021
  • Ken Buday

ECU computer science instructor follows in late father’s footsteps

When his father taught as a professor at East Carolina University, Aleksei Vilkomir traveled from Moscow to Greenville to visit. “The first time I came here, I was really impressed...

Nov 05, 2021
  • Crystal Baity

Purple and gold goes green

East Carolina University has again been named one of the nation’s most environmentally responsible colleges, according to the Princeton Review. The education services company recently named ECU one of 420...

Nov 04, 2021
  • Lacey L. Gray

ECU’s Voyages of Discovery Series features White House correspondent

East Carolina University’s Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences continues this season’s Voyages of Discovery Series on explorations in empowerment at 7 p.m. Nov. 18 in the Main Campus...

Nov 03, 2021
  • Lacey L. Gray

Podcasters to discuss crimes against Indigenous people at ECU event

East Carolina University soon will welcome Brittany Hunt and Chelsea Locklear, two North Carolina members of the Lumbee tribe and hosts of the podcast “The Red Justice Project,” for a virtual event...

Oct 29, 2021
  • Rob Spahr

ECU nursing students support abused children with cuddly donations

When there is need in eastern North Carolina, East Carolina University’s College of Nursing always answers the call to serve. This has been evident throughout the COVID-19 pandemic as nursing...