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Jan 27, 2020
  • Ken Buday

Faculty: Dr. Teresa Ryan

As someone who researches acoustics, Dr. Teresa Ryan can appreciate the sound of a heavy metal band. “I’m a member of the Slayer fan club,” said Ryan, an assistant professor...

Jan 23, 2020
  • Jules Norwood

ASPIRE TO INSPIRE

White House correspondent and political analyst April Ryan presented the keynote address for East Carolina University’s celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Wednesday night at the Main Campus Student...

Jan 22, 2020
  • Ken Buday

CHAMPION OF DIVERSITY

Aleshia Hunt, a financial advisor in East Carolina University’s Division of Student Affairs, learned the value of service from watching her grandmothers cook for the hungry and contribute to their...

Jan 21, 2020
  • Doug Boyd

ADDING VALUE TO AGRICULTURE

Ride by an eastern North Carolina farm, and you’ll see tobacco, corn, cotton, soybeans, maybe sorghum or wheat, and often some livestock. Janire Pascual-Gonzalez sees new sources of revenue for...

Jan 16, 2020
  • Spaine Stephens

SNIFFING OUT SICKNESS

Harley the beagle refused to run rabbits—a character flaw that left her future uncertain. Now, the wayward hunting dog has finally found a worthy prey—but not of the woodland variety....

Jan 15, 2020
  • Grady Dillon

Student: Delaney Arthur

East Carolina student Delaney Arthur has a passion for drawing and designing clothes. Now, she hopes to one day start her own design company. Arthur, a junior from Lynchburg, Virginia,...

Jan 14, 2020
  • Crystal Baity

NATIONALLY RANKED

Online graduate programs at East Carolina University have been recognized among the nation’s best in a new ranking by U.S. News & World Report. ECU’s master’s programs in business, criminal...

Amber Arnold, assistant director of student success in the Pirate Academic Success Center, works with ECU student Nolan McDonald on an assignment. Photo by Rhett Butler.
Jan 13, 2020
  • Crystal Baity

MINDSET TO SUCCESS

Nolan McDonald speaks from experience: You can turn around a bad first semester. Now a junior, McDonald moved to East Carolina University from his hometown of Medford, New Jersey. Not...

ECU postdoctoral scholar Byron Aguilar is studying a compound that could help Alzheimer’s patients. (Photos by Doug Boyd)
Jan 09, 2020
  • Doug Boyd

CONQUERING DISEASE

Byron Aguilar is studying how a group of signaling proteins called Rho GTPases, which play a role in several common cellular functions, might affect the development of not only cancer...

Jan 08, 2020
  • Matt Smith

SIMPLY THE BEST

East Carolina University’s student entrepreneurship program, RISE29, was honored for its co-curricular innovation by the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE) at its annual conference Monday in...