ECU Now Blog Archives

Sep 04, 2020
  • ECU News Services

Phased Retirement Program availability announced

On behalf of Interim Chancellor Mitchelson, Interim Provost Grant Hayes announces the annual availability of the Phased Retirement Program for eligible tenured faculty members. Individual letters to eligible faculty members...

Sep 03, 2020
  • Kristen Martin

ECU Community School reopens for new academic year with safety procedures

Students and staff returned to the East Carolina University Community School on Aug. 17 to new procedures and policies promoting social distancing, mask wearing and awareness of COVID-19. The Community...

Sep 02, 2020
  • Crystal Baity

Students create outdoor art installations

Before classes moved online this semester, East Carolina University students in Gabe Duggan’s art class hung colorful, spiderweb-like creations in front of Jenkins Fine Arts Center. Though temporary, the pieces...

Sep 02, 2020
  • Spaine Stephens

Researcher studying if new ECU-created pesticide is safer for humans

A researcher in the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University has received a grant to study the human and environmental safety of NoPest, an ECU-created novel pesticide aimed...

Aug 31, 2020
  • Erin Ward

ECU Foundation welcomes three new board members

The ECU Foundation welcomed new members Deidra Blanks, Matt Crisp and Dave Fussell Jr. to its board of directors in August. They will help the ECU Foundation promote, strengthen and...

Aug 27, 2020
  • Crystal Baity

Study finds source of COVID-19 messaging impacts effectiveness

New research from a multi-institution team including an East Carolina University faculty member finds that messaging during the pandemic is more effective when attributed to a trusted health organization rather...

Aug 26, 2020
  • Lacey L. Gray

Sociology student publishes cross-collaborative research with pediatric faculty

Sarah Watson, an East Carolina University graduate student in the Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences (THCAS) Department of Sociology, is applying her studies to important cross-collaborative, clinical research....

Aug 25, 2020
  • Lacey L. Gray

English faculty’s virtual reality design of Irish castle receives NEH humanities grant

The National Endowment for the Humanities recently announced $30 million for 238 humanities projects nationwide. Dr. Tom Herron, professor of English at East Carolina University, will receive a portion of...

Aug 20, 2020
  • Matt Smith

ECU postdoc Hale receives NIH fellowship

East Carolina University postdoctoral scholar Benjamin Hale received a prestigious Ruth L. Kirschstein Postdoctoral Individual National Research Service Award from the National Institutes of Health, the organization announced this month....

Aug 19, 2020
  • Matt Smith

Innovation LLC welcomes new members

The next cohort of East Carolina University’s newest trailblazers kicked off their first week as Pirates as the Innovation Living Learning Community (LLC) welcomed 15 new members to its 2024...