ECU Now Blog Archives

Sep 30, 2020
  • Spaine Stephens

Brody School of Medicine researcher receives NIH funding for skeletal muscle research

A faculty researcher with Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University has received a $750,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to further explore the implications of a...

Sep 28, 2020
  • Crystal Baity

Art professor named distinguished fellow by national society

Dr. Alice Arnold, professor in the East Carolina University School of Art and Design, has been named a Kenneth Marantz Distinguished Fellow by the United States Society for Education through...

Sep 24, 2020
  • Rich Klindworth

Navigating virtual job interviews

Virtual has become our new normal. And for East Carolina University students heading into their careers, virtual job interviews will most likely be in their foreseeable future. “Virtual interviews might...

Sep 21, 2020
  • Lacey L. Gray

Voyages speaker: Climate change affects all, need to talk more about it

East Carolina University’s Voyages of Discovery Series recently hosted its first live-streamed event, reducing the carbon footprint of the university, the event speaker and hundreds of attendees. This was appropriate,...

Sep 17, 2020
  • Kelly Rogers Dilda

NC Agromedicine Institute official earns top agricultural safety award

LaMar Grafft, associate director of the North Carolina Agromedicine Institute, has been awarded the 2020 Maynard Coe Professional Achievement Award from the International Society for Agricultural Safety and Health (ISASH)....

Sep 16, 2020
  • Spaine Stephens

ECU’s Center for Health Disparities names director

Dr. Keith Keene has been named director of the East Carolina University Brody School of Medicine Center for Health Disparities (CHD), effective Aug. 1, 2020. He has served as the...

Sep 15, 2020
  • ECU News Services

UNC System Racial Equity Task Force Survey

In June, the Board of Governors established the UNC System Racial Equity Task Force. To guide their critically important work, the UNC System has launched an online survey for members...

Sep 14, 2020
  • Jules Norwood

Memorial acknowledges community members lost to COVID-19

As East Carolina University and the Greenville community adapt to the changes forced by the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Andrea Kitta, associate professor in the Department of English, has organized a...

Sep 11, 2020
  • Natalie Sayewich

7 Questions With Dr. Kim Stokes: How ECU Will Boost Rural Health Care with $1.2M

A new grant award will be put to work placing more medical providers into the rural areas in which they’re needed. The United States Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)...

Sep 10, 2020
  • Ken Buday

ECU receives award for its focus on diversity and inclusiveness

East Carolina University’s focus on diversity and inclusiveness has been recognized for the ninth consecutive year with the Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award. The HEED award, sponsored by...