ECU Now Blog Archives

Apr 29, 2021
  • Kristen Martin

Honors freshmen pitch their final projects in Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium

For many college students, this academic year was mostly a virtual experience, especially for freshmen in large, lecture-style classes. This was true for the roughly 200 Honors College freshmen enrolled...

Apr 27, 2021
  • Kelly Rusk

School of Social Work names new director

The School of Social Work at East Carolina University has announced Kirk A. Foster as its new director. He will join ECU in July. “I am delighted to welcome Dr....

Apr 26, 2021
  • Jules Norwood

Staff Senate recognizes outstanding employees

The East Carolina University Staff Senate celebrated university staff members with Staff Appreciation Week April 19-23, culminating with the inaugural Outstanding Staff Virtual Awards Ceremony April 23. Staff Appreciation Week...

Apr 23, 2021
  • Crystal Baity

Larger-than-life puppets featured in ECU production of ‘Lysistrata’

East Carolina University’s Loessin Playhouse will close its virtual season with a performance of “Lysistrata,” featuring larger-than-life puppets. The School of Theatre and Dance will stream an adaptation of the...

Apr 22, 2021
  • Ken Buday

ECU engineering student receives NSF research fellowship

East Carolina University engineering student Shea Middleton has been awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. The oldest graduate fellowship of its kind, the NSF GRFP provides a three-year...

Apr 15, 2021
  • Kristen Martin

Engineering student receives prestigious Goldwater scholarship

East Carolina University engineering major Elliot Paul has been named a 2021 Goldwater Scholar, the most prestigious national undergraduate scholarship in the natural sciences, mathematics and engineering. More than 1,200...

Apr 14, 2021
  • Michael Rudd

Analysis shows hospitality/tourism industry will have a different look

The Rosewood Hotel, located in Ontario, Canada, is most likely known to Schitt’s Creek fans as the Rosebud Motel. According to the School of Hospitality Leadership’s director, Dr. Bob O’Halloran,...

Apr 14, 2021
  • Lacey L. Gray

FUTURE CHANGE MAKERS

This spring, East Carolina University undergraduates taking a 4000-level research course in African and African American Studies (AAAS) are learning how their history and diverse, interdisciplinary research interests may help...

Apr 09, 2021
  • ECU News Services

Bolin busts myths about COVID-19 vaccines

East Carolina University’s Dr. Paul Bolin is a mythbuster when it comes to COVID-19. Bolin, chair of the Department of Internal Medicine in ECU’s Brody School of Medicine, answered questions...

Apr 08, 2021
  • Spaine Stephens

Dental students raise awareness, funds ahead of Day of Unity

The ECU School of Dental Medicine will celebrate a Day of Unity on Friday, May 14, to honor the differences among people and to encourage dialogue on diversity and racism....