TAKING COMMAND
For someone who claims to not believe in multitasking, Jason Higginson certainly excels at it. In addition to serving as executive dean of East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine,...
Faculty/Staff Archives
ADVANCED DEGREES
East Carolina University’s online master’s degree programs in business, criminal justice, education and nursing are among the best in the nation in a new ranking by U.S. News & World...
ENHANCING ECU’S REACH
East Carolina University is receiving $1.39 million for a collaborative project that aims to improve access to digital technology and literacy, resources and skills training for residents in 29 eastern...
ECU’s McClammy Lab celebrates 10 years of counseling success, history
During the last few years, the importance of mental health has become a prevalent topic. This increased focus showcases the importance of spaces like East Carolina University's McClammy Counseling and...
Enthusiasm for ECU inspires planned gifts
Duane Grooms’ love and loyalty for his alma mater meet the call of the university’s first president, Robert H. Wright, who hoped for “every student ... to go out from...
PARKINSON’S PILOT
One of the ironies of Parkinson’s disease, which is marked by an increasing inability for sufferers to control their movements, is that movement helps to stave off the disease’s progression....
UNEXPECTED KINDNESS
Peter Ku ’68 describes his life as a series of miracles that brought him to the United States from Taiwan and eventually to East Carolina College where he found the...
Faculty: Susannah Berry
One bragged to her about having new pink shoes. Another presented her with a tin full of muffins — muffins made of leaves picked up from the playground, but when...
ECU anthropology course questions pseudoscience in search for solutions
Binge-watching lists for the holidays might include a new Netflix series that proposes survivors of an ice-age cataclysm fanned out across the globe and influenced civilizations from the Andes to...
ECU 2022: YEAR IN REVIEW
If one word sums up Pirate Nation in 2022, it's "renewal." Pirates returned to campus with a rejuvenated sense of hope in response to COVID-19. Chancellor Philip Rogers was officially...