Faculty/Staff Archives

A baby’s finger is being held by an adult thumb and finger.
Feb 13, 2025
  • Lacey L. Gray

ECU biology professor researches genetic markers associated with sudden infant death syndrome

The loss of a child is an emotionally sensitive experience for a parent, no matter the age, but when the cause is unknown, as in the case of sudden infant...

R1 Top-tier Research University
Feb 13, 2025
  • Jamie Smith
  • Kim Tilghman

ECU’s research efforts earn prestigious R1 status

East Carolina University has reached a transformative milestone in its journey of discovery, securing Research 1 (R1) status and joining the ranks of the nation’s most prestigious academic institutions. This...

Feb 12, 2025
  • Ronnie Woodward

Fifty years of enhancing recreational therapy

East Carolina University is serving as a vibrant hub for National Recreational Therapy Month in February. On the state level, ECU will host the North Carolina Recreational Therapy Association’s Student-Professionals...

Fast-moving and turgid flood waters move down a moderate slope upon which a red brick ranch house sits partially submerged.
Feb 11, 2025
  • Bobby Ampezzan

Agromedicine Institute continues aid, outreach through western North Carolina’s hurricane recovery

Recovering from a natural disaster can be as harrowing as the event itself, and it does not discriminate, but it lands differently for farmers and farm families. Growers are tied...

Three women stand in front of a white screen in East Carolina University’s Main Campus Student Center. They each hold a different trophy representing their first, second and third place awards in the Three-Minute Thesis competition.
Feb 10, 2025
  • Lacey L. Gray

Shifting the attitude of reporting sports-related head injuries

Xanthia Saganis, an East Carolina University doctoral student in the Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences health psychology program pursuing a concentration in clinical health, is studying athletic injuries....

A man in a gray shirt and black apron holds a coffee order.
Feb 06, 2025
  • Benjamin Abel

Awaken Coffee expands to ECU: Empowering the differently abled, one cup at a time

As of Feb. 3, the East Carolina University Health Sciences Campus is fully caffeinated again. Awaken Coffee, which offers premium coffee brewed and served by members of the greater Greenville...

A woman wearing a gold top with black pants sits in a huge letter ‘C’ that is part of the E-C-U letters in front of East Carolina University’s Main Campus Student Center.
Feb 03, 2025
  • Crystal Baity

Staff: Audra Thomas

Audra Thomas has mentored hundreds of students in her 25 years at East Carolina University, working to ensure they feel like they belong and can find support to succeed in...

Feb 03, 2025
  • Steven Grandy

Polar Bear Plunge delivers splashes and smiles

For East Carolina University junior Kaliyah Crowder, the wait was more than worth it. The hospitality management major from Raleigh took her place at the front of the line at...

A young woman in a brown sweater smiles as she stands next to an older woman with a black scarf and brown sweater to get their picture made against a purple background. At right, a person holds a cell phone up to take the picture.
Jan 31, 2025
  • Ken Buday

ECU Excels celebrates successes of freshmen, transfer students

Kinley Nance showed up at East Carolina University in the fall not knowing what to expect. The freshman from Chadbourn was nearly three hours from home, living on her own...

Group of people performing ribbon-cutting with large scissors at Wildwood Park.
Jan 29, 2025
  • Ronnie Woodward

StoryWalks merge fun, fitness with reading

Parents and caregivers emphasized the fun of reading as they enjoyed spirited and reading-based activities for children at Wildwood Park on Jan. 18 to help introduce StoryWalks to Greenville. StoryWalk...