Faculty/Staff Archives

Sep 19, 2023
  • Crystal Baity

ECU remains a top college in 2024 U.S. News rankings

East Carolina University is a top five school in North Carolina in best public schools and top 10 in the state in all national university categories in U.S. News & World...

Sep 18, 2023
  • ECU News Services

Designed by a Pirate

You may notice a large pirate ship bursting through a building when passing the corner of Fifth Street and Reade Circle near East Carolina University’s Main Campus. The ship is...

Sep 15, 2023
  • Crystal Baity

Meaning in making: ECU students turn everyday objects into art

Earlier this week, visiting scholar Neil Nenner challenged East Carolina University graduate students to go outside the School of Art and Design and photograph things they normally wouldn’t. The exercise...

East Carolina University students look at a chalkboard of messages during a mental health awareness event in February. (ECU photo by Rhett Butler)
Sep 11, 2023
  • Jules Norwood

YOU MATTER

Everyone’s journey is different.  East Carolina University offers a wide range of mental health and well-being resources, and now, Campus Recreation and Wellness (CRW) is raising awareness and connecting the...

Dr. Yong Zhu portrait
Sep 07, 2023
  • Ken Buday

Faculty: Dr. Yong Zhu

When Yong Zhu attended college, he learned a valuable lesson about the path to success. “I just kept my head down, showed up, kept trying and never gave up on...

Sep 07, 2023
  • Crystal Baity

ECU remains a Best Bang for the Buck school in new ranking

East Carolina University is in the top 15% of Best Bang for the Buck schools in the Southeast according to an annual ranking released Aug. 28 by Washington Monthly. In...

Erin Roberts, left, uses her fingers to demonstrate eye movement desensitization and reprocessing with colleague Jennifer Matthews.
Sep 06, 2023
  • Ronnie Woodward

EMPOWERING ENC

Faculty members in East Carolina University’s College of Health and Human Performance are taking a multi-layered approach to trauma-informed education and implementation. This focus stems from a four-year grant of...

This year's Voyages of Discovery Series will feature an accomplished actor and an Olympic gymnast who will address the theme of inspiring hope and healing.
Aug 31, 2023
  • Lacey L. Gray

INSPIRING HOPE AND HEALING

East Carolina University’s Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences Voyages of Discovery Series will feature an accomplished actor and an Olympic gymnast who will address the theme of inspiring...

Martina Van Etten, a STEM Summer Immersion Program students from the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, spent the summer at East Carolina University studying sablefish.
Aug 30, 2023
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

RESEARCH IMMERSION

This summer, Martina Van Etten has learned about sablefish, a deep-water species native to the eastern Pacific Ocean, through an internship at East Carolina University. A junior biology major at...

East Carolina University Health Education and Promotion professor Dr. Jo Anne Balanay and Fayetteville State University student KiHyira Jones look at a wet bulb globe temperature heat stress monitor positioned in a parking lot outside the Belk Building. They studied heat stress factors this summer.
Aug 30, 2023
  • Ronnie Woodward

SUMMER SAFETY

KiHyira Jones arrived at East Carolina University from Fayetteville State University in early June completely unfamiliar with a heat stress monitor that measures wet bulb globe temperature index. In just...