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Nov 20, 2019
  • Grady Dillon

‘INTO THE WOODS’

East Carolina University students will perform “Into the Woods,” a musical that intertwines several fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm and Charles Perrault, Nov. 20 through Nov. 24 in McGinnis...

Photography by Rhett Butler
Nov 15, 2019
  • Grady Dillon

Student: Darius Alexander

East Carolina University student Darius Alexander has aspirations to be a district attorney and to influence criminal justice reform. Alexander, a junior, is originally from New York but moved to...

Nov 14, 2019
  • ECU News Services

RECOGNIZING WOMEN VETERANS

East Carolina University's motto is "Servire," or "to serve," and several hundred female employees live that motto to its fullest. As of fall 2018, ECU employed 554 women veterans who...

Nov 14, 2019
  • Ken Buday

WASTE NOT

Holly Whitmyer is happy to be out of the classroom. She hasn’t graduated from East Carolina University yet, but she is among seven students tasked with a real-world project that...

Howell Binkley, ECU alumnus and Tony Award-winning lighting designer, speaks to theater and dance students in McGinnis Theatre on Nov. 8. (Photos by Rhett Butler)
Nov 13, 2019
  • Crystal Baity

ALL ABOUT EXPOSURE

Alumnus and award-winning lighting designer Howell Binkley returned to East Carolina University’s School of Theatre and Dance on Nov. 8 to visit with students and attend a scholarship fundraising gala....

Nov 12, 2019
  • Kristin Zachary
  • Natalie Shrader-Pruitt

#THANKSECU

There are many reasons to say #ThanksECU. ECU basketball player Seth Leday #ThanksECU for letting him do what he loves. Student researcher Serena Mooney #ThanksECU for allowing her to be...

Nov 12, 2019
  • Doug Boyd

A HAND UP

When you see Nicholas Hill’s experimental prosthetic hand for the first time, it’s just too easy to crack a joke about the upcoming “Terminator: Dark Fate.” It looks that much...

Nov 11, 2019
  • ECU News Services

MILITARY MEMOS

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Nov 11, 2019
  • Natalie Sayewich

BREAKING BARRIERS

When Dr. Charleen McNeill was offered a chance to make history, and to pave the way for the female soldiers that would follow her, she didn’t hesitate. The position she...

Nov 08, 2019
  • Lacey L. Gray

BREATHING CLEAN AIR

Preserving and improving the quality of breathable air is the life work of Dr. R.K.M. Jayanty, adjunct professor of biological and agricultural engineering at N.C. State, who spoke at East...