Featured Story Archives

Dec 04, 2019
  • Jules Norwood

PROUD PIRATE

Interim Chancellor Ron Mitchelson has spent the past 20 years as a professor and administrator at East Carolina University, and today he occupies the big desk in Spilman, responsible for...

Nov 27, 2019
  • Jules Norwood

COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER

Dr. Laura Gerald, president of the Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust, will be the keynote speaker for East Carolina University’s Fall Commencement Ceremony on Friday, Dec. 13 at 9 a.m....

Nov 20, 2019
  • Spaine Stephens

SMILES FOR VETERANS

Gordon Gaebel Jr. reclined in a dental chair during the ECU Smiles for Veterans event and took several deep, calming breaths. It wasn’t until he locked eyes with his dentist...

Nov 14, 2019
  • Ken Buday

WASTE NOT

Holly Whitmyer is happy to be out of the classroom. She hasn’t graduated from East Carolina University yet, but she is among seven students tasked with a real-world project that...

Nov 11, 2019
  • ECU News Services

MILITARY MEMOS

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Nov 11, 2019
  • Natalie Sayewich

BREAKING BARRIERS

When Dr. Charleen McNeill was offered a chance to make history, and to pave the way for the female soldiers that would follow her, she didn’t hesitate. The position she...

Nov 06, 2019
  • Crystal Baity

INTIMATE DIRECTION

East Carolina University is at the forefront of training theater and dance students in the latest industry standards led by a growing part of production teams: intimacy directors and coordinators....

Oct 31, 2019
  • Rob Spahr

GROWING BRAINS

When people ask Dr. Karen Litwa what she does for a living, her response is unique. “I say that I’m a brain builder,” she says through a smile. Litwa, an...

Oct 22, 2019
  • Jamie Smith

SUPERNATURAL

Have you heard bumps in the night in buildings on East Carolina University’s campus? Maybe a door slamming mysteriously in Christenbury Gym. Cold brushes of air in Joyner Library. Children...

Oct 18, 2019
  • ECU News Services

HOMECOMING 2019

SATURDAY, OCT. 26 HOMECOMING PARADE AND FLOAT COMPETITION 9 a.m. All along Fifth Street beginning at Hilltop Street and ending at Evans Street Rain or Shine PIRATE DOUGHNUT PARTY 9...