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Mar 28, 2024
  • Crystal Baity

International graduate student builds data analytic skills and community at ECU

Graduate student Aadam Bodunrin has experienced the challenge of adjusting to life far from home, adapting to a new culture and navigating an unfamiliar academic system. It’s a big reason...

Mar 26, 2024
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

Alumnus launches peanut passion project

A flash of Pirate-inspired flare adorns every can of Hancock Peanut Company. peanuts. The purple stripes on the logo of the golden legumes highlight the talents and family history of...

Summer Edwards, center, director of university scholarships, and Zenaia Ward, administrative support specialist, participate in Pirate Nation Gives at the Main Campus Student Center at ECU. (Photo by Rhett Butler)
Mar 22, 2024
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

GIVING IMPACT

Alumni and friends answered the call to support East Carolina University during Pirate Nation Gives on March 20. Some even say it was the GOAT — the greatest of all...

Mar 19, 2024
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

Pirate Nation’s 8th day of giving will be March 20

No matter who they are, where they are or how much they give, East Carolina University is calling for everyone to be all hands on deck in support of Pirate...

Connor Haycox will be completing a family medicine residency at ECU Health, joining his wife, Dr. Natalie Malpass, a 2022 Brody graduate who is also completing a family medicine residency. (Photos by ECU Photos)
Mar 18, 2024
  • Benjamin Abel
  • Kelly Rogers Dilda
  • Spaine Stephens

MATCH DAY 2024

In a ceremony more festive than formal, fourth-year medical students in the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University learned March 15 where they will spend the next three...

East Carolina University students traveled to Baja California Sur, Mexico for a spring break study abroad trip where they learned about marine mammals as well as the ecosystem in Mexico. One of the places they visited were the Dunas de Soledad, or Dunes of Solitude, north of Guerrero Negro. (Photos by Kristen Martin)
Mar 15, 2024
  • Kristen Martin

Whale Watching

When people hear spring break in Mexico, they may think all-inclusive resorts and spending hours laying on a beach. For eight East Carolina University students, spring break in Mexico meant...

Mar 13, 2024
  • Ken Buday

Jumping In

Camouflage green or brown may be the uniform of the day for Army personnel. But East Carolina University purple and gold matches it perfectly. Students and faculty in the College...

Mar 12, 2024
  • Crystal Baity

Behind The Curtain

Broadway’s Ali Ewoldt shared her inspiring story of breaking barriers and perseverance with East Carolina University School of Theatre and Dance students during a visit on Feb. 23. Ewoldt, the...

East Carolina soccer players participate in shooting tests, while wearing GPS tracking vests, as College of Health and Human Performance undergraduate research assistant Lauren McCurdy watches and records data. (Photos by Rhett Butler)
Mar 11, 2024
  • Ronnie Woodward

PEAK PERFORMANCE

Research and sports science have taken Taylor Kinney from studying shoulder biomechanics at a baseball pitching lab in Omaha, Nebraska, and presenting at the 2023 Major League Baseball winter meetings...

Mar 06, 2024
  • Benjamin Abel

LEVERAGING TELENOVELAS FOR HEALTH EDUCATION

When she was completing her nursing doctoral education at the University of Miami, Dr. Madeline Fernandez got thrown for a loop – she was enlisted to help produce a Spanish-language...