Faculty/Staff Archives

Jan 08, 2025
  • Lacey L. Gray

ECU Voyages Series features TV host, biologist, wildlife conservationist Jeff Corwin

East Carolina University’s Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences will welcome biologist and wildlife conservationist Jeff Corwin to the Main Campus Student Center Ballrooms on Jan. 30 for the...

Three people sit in front of computers, two wearing headsets. The closest woman is smiling and writing on a yellow pad of paper.
Jan 08, 2025
  • Benjamin Abel

Writing AI

Writing teachers have always contended with emerging technologies that spelled impending doom for the future of student success in composition classrooms. Professors in the English department are finding innovative ways...

Jan 08, 2025
  • Benjamin Abel

ECU faculty work to understand how to teach writing in the age of AI

When we try to predict the future, sometimes we are way off base. Flying cars, recreational space flight (well, that’s not such a reach anymore) and world peace all seemed...

Three people sit in front of computers, two wearing headsets. The closest woman is smiling and writing on a yellow pad of paper.
Jan 08, 2025
  • Benjamin Abel

Students come to terms with how to use AI in the classroom

In classrooms across East Carolina University’s campuses, faculty and students alike are grappling with how to use artificial intelligence (AI) tools in the classroom — how to balance new ways...

Dec 17, 2024
  • Spaine Stephens

ECU Smiles for Veterans tradition continues momentum with Ross Hall event

Samantha Yarboro, a second-year student in East Carolina University’s School of Dental Medicine, joined the U.S. Navy in 2013 and separated in July 2023, a month before beginning dental school....

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Dec 13, 2024
  • Ken Buday

Staff: Ashlee Lancaster

Level Cross is known as the home of NASCAR racing legend Richard Petty. But for Ashlee Lancaster, her hometown means a little more than that. “I’m related to most of...

Dec 11, 2024
  • Bobby Ampezzan

Hands-on experience gives high schoolers a look at their health sciences education

Success stories start as dreams we harbor in our youth. Career days such as the third Future Health Professionals Conference Nov. 23 help fill in the critical details that make...

A young man with a mustache and goatee wears a purple mortarboard with gold tassel and purple graduation gown crosses his arms with closed fists while smiling.
Dec 06, 2024
  • Crystal Baity

Jayson Arnold, Public Health

Jayson Arnold said his time at East Carolina University has taught him to embrace the unexpected. From the pandemic his freshman year to helping hurricane relief efforts through his American...

Margaret Maynor in her cap and gown
Dec 06, 2024
  • Kristen Martin

Margaret Maynor, Curriculum and Instruction

This week Margaret Maynor achieves a dream she has had since 1983 — walking across the stage as an East Carolina University graduate. Directly after high school, Maynor attended ECU...

Dec 05, 2024
  • Lacey L. Gray

ECU faculty selected for prestigious recognition as women science leaders

East Carolina University faculty members in the Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences and Integrated Coastal Programs have been selected for a prestigious national recognition. Dr. Rebecca Asch, associate...