Coronavirus News and Updates Archives

Jul 06, 2020
  • Matt Smith

Summer Innovation Academy expands digital reach

While many Pirates continue to shelter in place during the COVID-19 pandemic, East Carolina University’s Summer Innovation Academy expanded its reach, albeit virtually. For the first time in its three-year...

Jul 02, 2020
  • Spaine Stephens

Standardized patients continue helping ECU health sciences students learn despite COVID

For 15 years, Ann Flake has helped students across the East Carolina University Division of Health Sciences practice their clinical skills—and the COVID-19 pandemic hasn’t changed that. Flake serves as...

Jul 01, 2020
  • Spaine Stephens

POST-PANDEMIC CARE

Mental health care will become more critical during the COVID-19 pandemic and after it subsides, says one East Carolina University psychiatrist. Through the North Carolina Statewide Telepsychiatry Program (NC-STeP) based...

Jul 01, 2020
  • ECU News Services

ECU COVID-19 Self-Reporting Form

ECU Student Health Services has initiated a “COVID-19 Self-Reporting Form” for current ECU students via PiratePort. The form, when submitted by the student, notifies ECU Student Health Services to enable...

Jul 01, 2020
  • ECU News Services

CARES Act Reporting — June 30

As required by the Department of Education, ECU is providing the following information to our campus community and will update this content every 45 days. New update: Aug. 15 CARES...

Jun 30, 2020
  • Rich Klindworth

5 Tips for Virtual Meetings and Interviews

It's 9 a.m. You walk into your kitchen, grab a cup of coffee and open your laptop. For some, it’s time for your weekly meeting with your supervisors; for others,...

Jun 30, 2020
  • Lacey L. Gray

DIGITAL FIELD EXPERIENCE

An important part of instruction received by a geological sciences major at East Carolina University includes knowledge and skills gained in the field. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, student experiences...

Pirate Profile
Jun 29, 2020
  • Ken Buday

Faculty: Dr. Holly Wei

Dr. Holly Wei is a magician. And as an associate professor in East Carolina University’s College of Nursing, she is teaching her students to become magicians themselves. “When I was...

Jun 25, 2020
  • ECU News Services

June 25 Coronavirus Update

This week, the university released the master plan for returning to campus this fall. Updates about returning to campus and the steps ECU is taking to make that return possible...

Jun 25, 2020
  • Crystal Baity

ECU ranks highly for planning for course delivery during the COVID-19 crisis

East Carolina University has been listed as one of the best prepared for the COVID-19 reality as colleges across the country plan to open this fall. Educate to Career, a...