Faculty/Staff Archives

Four female students wearing matching school uniform green and orange polkadot dresses listen to a teacher at a high school during a dress rehearsal for East Carolina University’s production of “School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play.”
Sep 24, 2024
  • Alondra Martinez

Director Shaffer-Dickerson leads thought-provoking play at ECU

“School Girls” 7:30 p.m. nightly through Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday McGinnis Theatre, Fifth Street, ECU Tickets are $10 for youth and ECU students, $15 for faculty/staff and senior citizens,...

Sep 24, 2024
  • Crystal Baity

ECU ranks among the best in North Carolina and nationwide

Outcome-focused ECU is among the top 500 universities in the country named the 2025 Best Colleges in a new Wall Street Journal/College Pulse ranking. ECU is in the top half...

Sep 12, 2024
  • Lacey L. Gray

ECU professor attends leadership symposium, forges bonds between ECU ROTC, criminal justice

Dr. Heidi Bonner, East Carolina University professor and chair of the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology, had the unique opportunity to participate in the United States Army Cadet Summer...

Sep 12, 2024
  • Kristen Martin

ECU faculty spearhead global effort to address rural mental health and education

Counselor education faculty in the East Carolina University College of Education sought to improve rural education and mental health literacy through the creation of a partnership between the United States...

Sep 11, 2024
  • Spaine Stephens

Dental school county-based oral health care programs thrive

When Connie Burleson moved from Sanford, North Carolina, to Swan Quarter in coastal Hyde County, one of her favorite pastimes became driving the back roads and taking in the area’s...

Sep 10, 2024
  • Kristen Martin

ECU Community School exceeds expected academic growth

The East Carolina University Community School had several reasons to celebrate with the release of the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (NC DPI) school performance data. This year marks...

Sep 09, 2024
  • Crystal Baity

New season opens Sept. 13 for performing arts series

The 2024-25 S. Rudolph Alexander Performing Arts Series (SRAPAS) opens Sept. 13 with the classical guitar Duo Exaudi featuring René Izquierdo and Elina Chekan in the A.J. Fletcher Recital Hall...

Sep 05, 2024
  • Benjamin Abel

ECU’s Nursing Education program trains faculty for community college programs

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention make no bones about the schism in health care outcomes between urban and rural parts of the nation: “rural Americans are more likely...

Dr. Jack Pender poses for a photo in a lab in the Science and Technology Building. (ECU Photo by Rhett Butler)
Sep 03, 2024
  • Lacey L. Gray

Staff: Dr. Jack Pender

In any lab, Dr. Jack Pender is professional but easily approachable with a big smile. His role at East Carolina University blurs the lines between faculty and staff. He teaches...

Aug 28, 2024
  • Crystal Baity

ECU recognized in new national rankings, guidebook

East Carolina University’s commitment to service and social mobility has earned it a top spot in a national ranking released Monday by Washington Monthly. Another organization, Princeton Review, has included...