Faculty/Staff Archives

A woman places a case of water in a semi-trailer with the ECU athletic logo on the side.
Oct 10, 2024
  • ECU News Services

Pirates come together for Hurricane Helene relief

The remnants of Hurricane Helene combined with heavy rainfall in the days prior to the storm caused historic flooding and devastation in the mountains of North Carolina and Tennessee after...

Oct 10, 2024
  • Benjamin Abel

Professor, student team up to study impact of foreign medical missions

Lindsay Jarman started volunteering on mission trips shortly after graduation as a nurse from Georgia Southern University — in Kenya, Honduras, Ecuador and Zimbabwe — to help provide a range...

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Oct 09, 2024
  • Steven Grandy

ECU welcomes Majka as Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence

Dr. Maciej Majka is making history at East Carolina University. Majka, a native of Poland, is ECU’s first-ever Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence and one of 41 nationally this year. A Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence...

Bayli Locklear, wearing a white lab coat, stands in front of a countertop full of scientific equipment.
Oct 08, 2024
  • Lacey L. Gray

First MARC students reaping benefits of mentoring, impactful research

  East Carolina University juniors and seniors are receiving the chance of a lifetime through the Maximizing Access to Research Careers (MARC) training program. The immersive biomedical scholars program is...

An aerial photo looking over Greenville’s cityscape with a train crossing the Pirate Nation overpass rails in the foreground and housing and businesses in the background.
Oct 04, 2024
  • Kim Tilghman

Report finds ECU fuels region and state’s economy

A recent economic impact report highlights how East Carolina University’s operations significantly benefit the region and the state. The report, generated by Drs. Meghan Millea and Vera Tabakova in ECU’s...

A large group of college students dressed in business attire mingle at a career fair.
Oct 03, 2024
  • Steven Grandy

Crafting careers for Pirates

While East Carolina University students are busy attending class, doing homework, and engaging in campus activities, their future careers are looming. When the time comes for them to begin their...

Oct 02, 2024
  • Lacey L. Gray

Marshall Island serves as resting place for WWII battle vehicles

The island of Roi-Namur is located in the northern part of Kwajalein Atoll, one of the many volcanic islands and coral atolls comprising the Republic of the Marshall Islands. Situated...

Jessica Doyle-Mekkes grips a microphone, holds her hand in the air and smiles while wearing a black shirt and white jacket in front of the McGinnis Theatre building.
Oct 01, 2024
  • Ken Buday

Faculty: Jessica Doyle-Mekkes

Those who believe silence is golden have never heard Jessica Doyle-Mekkes. The teaching assistant professor in East Carolina University’s School of Theatre and Dance strives to give her students a...

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Sep 27, 2024
  • ECU News Services

Board of Trustees approves Isley Indoor Performance Center

A long-awaited project is one step closer to becoming a reality as the East Carolina University Board of Trustees approved the construction of the Isley Indoor Performance Center as part...

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,...