ECU Now Blog Archives

Apr 15, 2020
  • ECU News Services

Student Health prepares for national accreditation

East Carolina University Student Health Services (SHS) hosted an Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC) fair on March 10 for all SHS employees. The fair was intended to help...

Apr 13, 2020
  • Natalie Sayewich

What we know now: Updates from an expert on coronaviruses

What we know about COVID-19 seemingly changes by the hour. Since the novel coronavirus emerged in China in December and quickly became a worldwide threat, scientists and health care workers...

Apr 09, 2020
  • ECU News Services

Undergraduates earn research awards totaling nearly $50K

Thirty-two East Carolina University students have received Spring 2020 Undergraduate Research and Creativity Awards totaling more than $50,000, the university’s Office of Undergraduate Research has announced. The awards provide support...

Apr 08, 2020
  • ECU News Services

Construction management professor teaching ECU students from the Netherlands

Dr. Marwin Jurjus came to East Carolina University as part of a faculty exchange program with HAN University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands. At ECU for less than a...

Apr 07, 2020
  • ECU News Services

Annual RCAW event moves online

Adaptability was the unofficial theme for East Carolina University’s 14th annual Research and Creative Achievement Week (RCAW). Held March 30 to April 6, the event went completely virtual for the...

Apr 03, 2020
  • ECU News Services

Guiler receives prestigious Goldwater scholarship

East Carolina University junior William Guiler has been named a 2020 Goldwater Scholar, one of the most prestigious and oldest national scholarships in the natural sciences, mathematics and engineering in...

Apr 02, 2020
  • ECU News Services

College of Education shares expertise, opportunities internationally

It started with a student exchange program and led to an email from the prime minister of the Czech Republic. When Dr. Tosha Owens was in high school, an exchange...

Mar 27, 2020
  • ECU News Services

Brody student appointed to national committee

The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) recently appointed William H. McAllister as a 2020-2021 student member to the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME). McAllister, a third-year medical student...

Mar 26, 2020
  • ECU News Services

Baile named to 2020-21 cohort of Newman Civic Fellows

East Carolina University sophomore Maggie Baile was selected for the 2020-21 cohort of Newman Civic Fellows by Campus Compact, a Boston-based nonprofit organization working to advance the public purposes of...

Mar 24, 2020
  • ECU News Services

ECU professor co-chaired task force that set state’s health goals for 2030

The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services has released a report detailing health goals for North Carolinians by the year 2030. The report, “Healthy North Carolina 2030: A...