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Dec 02, 2021
  • ECU News Services

PROVOST NAMED

After a competitive national search, a UNC System veteran engineering educator and administrator has been named Provost and Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at East Carolina University by Chancellor...

Fallen leaves on ECU's campus
Nov 22, 2021
  • Crystal Baity

TOP ONLINE COLLEGE

East Carolina University is sixth in the nation — and No. 1 in North Carolina — in an inaugural ranking of America’s Top Online Colleges by Newsweek. ECU was one...

Nov 18, 2021
  • ECU News Services

‘LANDMARK MOMENT’

East Carolina University and the Brody School of Medicine extend our sincerest gratitude to the State of North Carolina for its investment in a new medical education building and for...

Dr. Philip Rogers gives a report to the ECU Board of Trustees. (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Nov 12, 2021
  • ECU News Services

EYE TO THE FUTURE

East Carolina University marked several milestones Friday as it kicked off a historic fundraising campaign and took the first step in the final approval process of creating ECU Health. At...

Chancellor Philip Rogers, ECU Board of Trustees members and other dignitaries cut the ribbon to officially open the new Life Sciences and Biotechnology Building.
Nov 11, 2021
  • Ken Buday

A GRAND OPENING

It’s not just a building. For East Carolina University, the new Life Sciences and Biotechnology Building represents the future. Chancellor Philip Rogers, ECU Board of Trustees members and other dignitaries...

ECU Chancellor Philip Rogers, left, and Col. Mikel Huber
Nov 08, 2021
  • Ken Buday

CONNECTION TO THE CORPS

East Carolina University and Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point have joined forces to help with educational opportunities for military and Department of Defense personnel on the base. Chancellor Philip...

Dr. Tom Irons, East Carolina University's associate vice chancellor for health sciences, was awarded the 2021 Jim Bernstein Community Health Career Achievement Award on Oct. 22 by the Foundation for Health Leadership & Innovation (Photo by Cliff Hollis)
Oct 26, 2021
  • Spaine Stephens

CAREER KUDOS

Wherever Dr. Thomas G. “Tom” Irons goes, his reputation as a tireless advocate for health care access for all North Carolinians precedes him. Irons is an East Carolina University fixture,...

Oct 11, 2021
  • Natalie Sayewich

UNDERSTANDING ‘LONG COVID’

A team from ECU’s Brody School of Medicine is collaborating with health care providers from Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth to understand the extended effects of COVID-19, and to...

Oct 08, 2021
  • ECU Contributor

ALUMNI AWARDS

The East Carolina University Alumni Association recognized six alumni at A Purple and Gold Evening, its annual awards ceremony Oct. 1 at the Greenville Convention Center. The awards, which were...

Oct 07, 2021
  • Jules Norwood

BIBLICAL BURNING

Could the biblical description of the destruction of Sodom be explained by an exploding meteor? A research team including East Carolina University’s Dr. Sid Mitra, professor of geological sciences, has...