PUSHING BOUNDARIES
When opportunity knocked, Emma O’Brien was ready to answer. “When I first came into school, I was so pigeon-holed into what I thought I wanted to do. When I thought...
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FULL SPEED AHEAD
East Carolina University’s graduating class of fall 2020 includes more than 2,000 students who will turn their tassels this week (from home — the Friday, Dec. 4 ceremony is virtual...
CONNECTING THE COMMUNITY
Laupus Library has been awarded a $75,000 grant through the Institute of Museum and Library Services to provide laptops and health education instruction to the school-aged children of migrant farmworker families in...
Politics and Kids: Experts offer advice on discussing emotions tied to elections
The polarized attitudes surrounding the 2020 election may have lasting effects on children. The amount of negative campaigning, news coverage and even everyday conversations between people has been difficult to...
TRIUMPH THROUGH TRAGEDY
Ask any group of football fans what triggers their gridiron passion and they’ll point to a specific memory. It may be the first morning of crisp fall air after a...
REMARKABLE LEADERS
Six outstanding women were honored for their selfless leadership as Women of Distinction at East Carolina University during a virtual ceremony on Sept. 29. Eboni Baugh, Betsy Tuttle, Cheryl Dudasik-Wiggs,...
CHILD CARE DURING COVID
When Governor Roy Cooper issued an executive order to shut down K-12 schools in North Carolina in March, Children’s World, a day care center with multiple locations in Greenville, stayed...
E-CIGARETTE EXPOSURE
East Carolina University researchers have been awarded a National Institutes of Health grant to measure secondhand and thirdhand exposure to electronic cigarette use inside vehicles as well as conduct an...
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...
Researcher studying if new ECU-created pesticide is safer for humans
A researcher in the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University has received a grant to study the human and environmental safety of NoPest, an ECU-created novel pesticide aimed...