PARENTAL PRESSURE
As the Atlantic Coast prepares for another hurricane season, an old wives’ tale passed down through generations warns that when major storms make landfall, it’s not just the storm surge...
Engineering/Technology Archives
ECU startup flips over hemp for skateboard manufacturing
A student-led East Carolina University startup company has plans to make hemp a household item, not for its use in health products or wholesome snacks, but for its potential to...
HELPING THE HELPERS
Update 5/21/20: Communities throughout North Carolina continue to support health care providers in Greenville through generous donations of personal protective equipment. The Chinese-American community in Greenville recently donated 10,000 additional...
PRESERVING PPE
Failure was not an option. A team from East Carolina University and Vidant Health developed and implemented processes for decontaminating and reusing personal protective equipment (PPE), especially N95 masks. “Failure...
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...
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...
PRINTING PROTECTION
A group of East Carolina University students has teamed up with faculty and administrators from various departments in hopes of providing needed safety equipment to medical personnel. With concerns over...
LEANING IN
As East Carolina University students switched from in-person to distance education-only classes last week, hundreds of faculty and staff worked from home. Face-to-face lectures or meetings were replaced by virtual...
CORE VALUES
Building Capacity for Underserved Areas Twenty-one students who completed the Public Fellows Internship program, funded by the State Employees’ Credit Union Foundation, were honored for their service in rural communities...
TOPPING OUT
Construction of the East Carolina University Life Sciences and Biotechnology Building reached a milestone with a “topping out” ceremony Wednesday at the site on the corner of 10th and Evans...