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Two women separate food into bowls in a well-lit indoor space.
Jul 08, 2025
  • Benjamin Abel

Speech student blends science, compassion for dysphagia study

An undergraduate student in East Carolina University’s speech language pathology program is offering hope to those with dysphagia through a novel research project — testing kitchen blenders. Hannah Shook will...

A man in a neon yellow construction shirt and white hard hat holds a nail gun to the floor of the Whichard building on campus.
Jul 01, 2025
  • Doug Boyd

Summer 2025 Campus Construction Roundup

This summer, crews and contractors at East Carolina University are busy working on old buildings and putting up new ones, with the goal of providing safe, modern and spacious facilities...

young man with glasses wearing a black long sleeve shirt smiles and stands in front of columns and brick buildings.
Jun 30, 2025
  • Crystal Baity

Student: Darian Hale

Darian Hale loves people and telling their stories. The East Carolina University senior is majoring in communication with a concentration in journalism. “There are stories everywhere,” Hale said. “I’ve learned...

Jun 25, 2025
  • Jessica VanderKolk

ECU festival connects young talent with renowned pianists

California teen Ari Nemet’s fingers flew across the keys as he played a Felix Mendelssohn composition on one of two side-by-side grand pianos on stage at East Carolina University’s A.J....

Two men, one at left in a purple shirt and the other in a green shirt, stand next to a large machine that prints three-dimensional objects while holding prosthetic foot attachments.
Jun 24, 2025
  • Ken Buday

ECU engineering students help develop prototype to support amputees in Africa

East Carolina University graduates set out to leave their marks on the world. Four 2025 engineering graduates have already done just that. Hannah Blackburn, Maranda Byrd, Lauren Simpson and Danielle...

Several students wearing pink and sitting in a row look up at someone on a stage and smile.
Jun 19, 2025
  • Crystal Baity

Your guide to Pirate life: meet the ECU orientation assistants

Orientation assistants (OA) serve a vital role in helping guide new students and their families into Pirate life at East Carolina University. Twenty-five OAs who are current students, along with...

Jun 17, 2025
  • Spaine Stephens

Grant expands dental school’s program for oral health care to pre-K, Head Start

Mallory Jones held out her arms as her 6-year-old daughter bounced through the door of the East Carolina University School of Dental Medicine’s Pediatric Clinic. Jones smiled as her daughter,...

hree women, who are Brody Scholars, stand side by side on the grounds in front of the Brody School of Medicine.
Jun 12, 2025
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

Brody Scholars share commitment to service

Since the Brody Scholars program began in 1983, 163 medical students have received the university’s most prestigious medical scholarship to attend East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine. The newest recipients...

A man and woman pose outside of a brick building in the mid-day sun.
Jun 10, 2025
  • Benjamin Abel

Pirate nurse leads high-tech neonatal pain research

A Pirate nurse has traveled far from her North Carolina home to learn the skills needed to relieve the pain felt by the smallest patients entrusted to a nurse’s care....

A female student with brown hair is standing in a library, smiling while holding an open green book.
Jun 09, 2025
  • Emily Winslow

Student: Emily Harouni

Emily Harouni, a third-year student in the College of Allied Health Sciences, wanted to make a difference in the health care world, but not in the way she had originally...