Faculty/Staff Archives

Nov 13, 2023
  • Crystal Baity

ECU sale benefiting art guilds and students kicks off holidays

An annual holiday fundraiser that benefits art guilds and students in the School of Art and Design returns to East Carolina University this week. The ECU School of Art and...

Nov 10, 2023
  • Ronnie Woodward

Impact, emotions come full circle at Camp WholeHeart

There is a phrase Brad Worrell likes to voice about Camp WholeHeart, which is for children 7 to 17 years old living with complex heart defects. “This is really their...

Food Lion representatives Kevin Durkee, David Hardee and David Garris join ECU nutrition science faculty Dr. Lauren Sastre and department chair Dr. Michael Wheeler in cutting the ribbon to open the ECU/Food Lion Feeds mobile teaching kitchen and pantry. (ECU Photo by Rhett Butler)
Nov 10, 2023
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

MOBILE NUTRITION

When East Carolina University’s new Farm 2 Clinic (F2C) mobile teaching kitchen and pantry hits the road it will deliver more than nutrition to underserved people in the region. The...

Learning assistant Matt Downing works with Tara Hodgkinson, left, and Macy Haddock during a biology lab in the Science and Technology Building. (Photos by Rhett Butler)
Nov 08, 2023
  • Lacey L. Gray

ENCOURAGING ENGAGEMENT

In a lab in the Science and Technology Building at East Carolina University, packed with students, fragile supplies and mysteriously marked cabinets and doors, the principles of biology laboratory may...

ECU faculty, staff and alumni cut the ribbon to celebrate the new office of ECU’s Military & Veterans Resource Center in the Main Campus Student Center. (Photos by Rhett Butler)
Nov 07, 2023
  • Crystal Baity

BEST FOR VETS

East Carolina University has been ranked among the nation’s best again this year in the Military Times’ 2023 Best for Vets Colleges. ECU was No. 24 in the Southeast and...

Nov 07, 2023
  • Kristen Martin

Board of Education meeting highlights ECU alumni, literacy and builds connections

The North Carolina State Board of Education hosted its planning and work session and monthly meeting on East Carolina University’s campus Oct. 31-Nov. 2 giving the ECU College of Education...

Johanne Hyde exercises at the ECU Fitness, Instruction, Testing and Training Building. (Photos by Rhett Butler)
Nov 06, 2023
  • Ronnie Woodward

HEALTHY OUTCOMES

Babies with less fat, strong hearts, better metabolism and healthy cells are the benefits of exercise by pregnant women, according to research at East Carolina University. Linda May, an associate...

Dr. Michelle L. Malkin, assistant professor of criminal justice and criminology, was awarded funding to establish and direct the Gambling Research and Policy Initiative. (Photo by Rhett Butler)
Nov 02, 2023
  • Lacey L. Gray

GAMBLING RESEARCH

Dr. Michelle L. Malkin, East Carolina University assistant professor of criminal justice and criminology, is the director of a new Gambling Research and Policy Initiative (GRPI), which will assist in...

Nov 02, 2023
  • Kim Tilghman

ECU graduate Safranek rises to the occasion to open business

Before the trees began to shed their leaves in early fall, Ashely Safranek was preparing for a buying conference in Atlanta to order spring items for her newly opened boutique....

Staff Profile, Meghan Lower
Nov 01, 2023
  • Ken Buday

Staff: Meghan Lower

Meghan Lower seemed destined to be a Pirate. After all, she grew up 15 minutes from the East Carolina University campus, her grandparents and mother graduated from ECU, making her...