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Mar 20, 2020
  • Ken Buday
  • Spaine Stephens

MATCH DAY 2020

Fourth-year Brody School of Medicine students learned Friday where they will spend the next several years completing residency training. The highly anticipated Match Day ceremony is normally held in the...

Mar 10, 2020
  • Jules Norwood

DISEASE AND MISINFORMATION

ECU UPDATES: THE CORONAVIRUS ECU continues to monitor the Coronavirus outbreak and is prepared to act quickly in the event any reports of symptoms or of exposure to the virus...

Mar 09, 2020
  • Janiya Winchester

Student: Ongeri Ayako

Ongeri Joseph Ayako, second-year medical student at East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine, believes in balance in his approach to becoming a doctor and his family life. Ayako, originally...

Mar 04, 2020
  • Doug Boyd

BARRIERS TO PARTICIPATION

Sports Illustrated has called Greenville a “Sportstown USA,” and while opportunities abound for youth and adults to play and learn, those doors aren’t equally open to everyone. That’s what East...

Mar 03, 2020
  • Rob Spahr

CORONAVIRUS EXPLAINED

ECU Experts ECU’s Division of Health Sciences has experts available to answer questions related to Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and other infectious diseases. Infectious diseases: Paul Cook, MD, chief of Brody’s...

Feb 27, 2020
  • Ken Buday

Faculty: Dr. Oneil Harris

Dr. Oneil Harris, associate professor in the Department of Finance at East Carolina University, had one word to describe his youth growing up in Kingston, Jamaica — “interesting.” However, that...

Feb 17, 2020
  • Grady Dillon

Student: Nakaya Melvin

East Carolina University student Nakaya Melvin is always up for a challenge. Melvin, a senior from Fayetteville, is an Honors College student double majoring in public health studies and chemistry....

Feb 14, 2020
  • Lacey L. Gray

COMING FULL CIRCLE

Married East Carolina University professors never expected a rogue storm to shipwreck their boat along the coast of North Carolina 35 years ago, but that is exactly what happened and...

Feb 12, 2020
  • Ken Buday

PITCH PERFECT

As a baseball pitcher, Evan Voliva has simple goals. “I just want to throw hard, throw well and strike out a lot of guys,” he said. As a fan of...

Feb 12, 2020
  • ECU News Services

LOVE IN PIRATE NATION

Some Pirates came to ECU for quality higher education and ended up with a two-for-one deal. Discover how they met their partner for life and read love stories in their...