ECU to host 24th annual summer guitar festival
Classical guitar performers – including a record number of duos – from around the world will converge in the A.J. Fletcher Music Center at East Carolina University for the 24th...
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Majority of Americans happy, says new ECU survey
A U.S. citizen’s unalienable right to pursue happiness proves true in the results of a new nationwide study by East Carolina University’s Center for Survey Research. Researchers looked at several...
Research shows fewer males born in U.S. during periods of stress
It is a common understanding in scientific research that males of a species, in general, are frailer and experience higher rates of mortality across their lifespans than females. Now, there...
ECU begins summer movie series
Bring your popcorn, drinks and a blanket or chair and enjoy the first of four planned outdoor movies on the big screen at East Carolina University. “Monsters, Inc.” will be...
Message to ECU Community from Dan Gerlach and Mark Stacy
As leaders of East Carolina University and the Brody School of Medicine, we have been asked repeatedly for our position on Vidant Health’s efforts to change how the Vidant Medical...
Holsaert named winner of 2019 Albright Nonfiction Prize
Faith S. Holsaert has been named the winner of the North Carolina Literary Review’s 2019 Alex Albright Creative Nonfiction Prize for “Matrilineal.” Selected from a record number of submissions this year,...
NCLR 2019 explores African American literature
The 2019 issue of the North Carolina Literary Review celebrates African American literature of the Old North State. Readers will be introduced to some of North Carolina’s newer award-winning writers,...
ECU announces new degree in entrepreneurship
East Carolina University’s College of Business (COB) will offer a new undergraduate degree in entrepreneurship through the Miller School of Entrepreneurship beginning in fall 2019. The Bachelor of Science in...
ECU awards full academic scholarships to four students from Pitt County
Four high school students from Pitt County are among 20 selected for the EC Scholars program at East Carolina University. The recipients are Dymon Blango, Oswaldo Javier Rangel Corona, Neha...
ECU professor traveling to Zambia as part of Fulbright program
An East Carolina University associate professor will travel to Zambia next year to assist in water quality testing of the African nation’s groundwater system. Alex Manda, a hydrogeologist in the...