Featured Story Archives

Sep 30, 2020
  • Matt Smith

NOVEL TREATMENT METHOD

An East Carolina University faculty member’s latest patent may change the way Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS) is treated, leading to more effective care over a longer period of time for...

Sep 29, 2020
  • Kelly Rogers Dilda

DRIVE-THRU FLU SHOTS

ECU Physicians, the physician practice of the Brody School of Medicine, is offering guidance and safeguarding during this year’s flu season. The practice is offering a drive-thru flu vaccine clinic...

Sep 10, 2020
  • Spaine Stephens

TREATING RARE CANCER

By all accounts a typical teen, Luke Haithcock loved to high-five his friends. The school-hallway equivalent to a handshake, the greeting punctuated Haithcock’s days at South Central High School in...

Sep 09, 2020
  • Kristen Martin

PROVEN LEADERS

East Carolina University’s College of Education received a $3.7 million grant to establish the PIRATE Leadership Academy for principal preparation to serve eastern North Carolina. Department of Educational Leadership professors...

Sep 08, 2020
  • Kristen Martin

NEW OPPORTUNITIES

The Honors College at East Carolina University will now admit students who are transferring to the university from a North Carolina community college. “We recognize that there are many great...

Aug 27, 2020
  • Kelly Rogers Dilda

PRESTIGIOUS SCHOLARS

Three medical students at ECU’s Brody School of Medicine have been awarded the university’s most prestigious scholarship. Michael Burt, Miranda Freeman and Heerali Patel – all North Carolina residents –...

Aug 12, 2020
  • Natalie Sayewich

COVID-19 Q&A

As we entered August still in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, we spoke with three of our faculty experts from ECU’s Brody School of Medicine to get answers to...

Aug 11, 2020
  • Ken Buday

FRANK CONVERSATIONS

The death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers sparked a movement for social justice this summer, a movement the East Carolina University Police Department supports. “The...

Aug 07, 2020
  • Crystal Baity

FINAL PUSH

#ECUMoveIn Vlog-Style New Pirates Natalia Figueroa-Bernal and Anyanso Kalu, both first-generation students, moved into the Jarvis Leadership LLC during #ECUMoveIn. Figueroa-Bernal, a graduate of Smithfield High School in Johnston County,...

Aug 06, 2020
  • Doug Boyd

BACK TO SCHOOL

Block scheduling? Check. Hand sanitizer? Check. Social distancing? Check. Face masks? Check. East Carolina University is ready for the start of classes next week amid the COVID-19 pandemic. “Faculty and...