Faculty/Staff Archives

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...

Oct 31, 2023
  • Kim Tilghman

Welch named regional director of NCInnovation at ECU

NCInnovation (NCI) has appointed Derrick Welch as the director of its regional innovation network for the east, located at East Carolina University. Welch will work out of ECU’s Research, Economic...

Oct 30, 2023
  • Lacey L. Gray

Sociology professor contributes leadership, expertise to National Science Foundation

East Carolina University sociology professor, Dr. Mamadi Corra recently was selected as a rotator in the Division of Social and Economic Sciences at the National Science Foundation (NSF) in Washington, D.C.,...

Oct 25, 2023
  • Crystal Baity

ECU receives 12th consecutive HEED award

East Carolina University’s focus on being a supportive and welcoming place for all learners has been recognized for the 12th consecutive year with the national Higher Education Excellence in Diversity...