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Homecoming football game. ECU Pirates vs. the USF Bulls. (ECU Photo by Cliff Hollis)
Oct 28, 2019
  • ECU News Services

HOMECOMING 2019

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Oct 28, 2019
  • Grady Dillon

Student: Sean Wear

East Carolina University student Sean Wear is a veteran with a passion for industrial engineering. Wear, a senior from Chicago, is majoring in industrial technology with a concentration in mechanical...

Oct 25, 2019
  • Erin Ward

LEARNING DISABILITIES AWARENESS MONTH

For many students with learning disabilities, the idea of college is just that — an idea. Students with learning disabilities attend four-year colleges at half the rate of other young adults,...

Oct 25, 2019
  • ECU News Services

CLASS (MUSICAL) NOTES

You should have no "treble" getting into the homecoming spirit with these Spotify playlists, complete with songs from each decade, starting with 1969 for our Pirates celebrating their 50th homecoming...

Dr. Adam Nowakowski from Krosno State College in Poland teaches intercultural communication in ECU’s Joyner East. (Photo by Rhett Butler)
Oct 23, 2019
  • Crystal Baity

READING BETWEEN LINES

East Carolina University’s School of Communication has welcomed two faculty members from Poland this semester as part of a partnership formed almost a decade ago. Dr. Ewa Rusek and Dr....

Oct 23, 2019
  • Jules Norwood

ZOMBIE CRABS

A parasitic barnacle present in eastern North Carolina’s estuaries is highly damaging to its mud crab hosts — castrating them and replacing the crab’s reproductive system with its own, fooling...

Oct 23, 2019
  • Rob Spahr

HEALTHIER BABIES

Newborn babies whose mothers exercised during their pregnancy have improved motor skills, heart function and body composition, East Carolina University researchers have found. Understanding the health benefits of exercise for...

Oct 22, 2019
  • Jamie Smith

SUPERNATURAL

Have you heard bumps in the night in buildings on East Carolina University’s campus? Maybe a door slamming mysteriously in Christenbury Gym. Cold brushes of air in Joyner Library. Children...

Oct 21, 2019
  • Matt Smith

SOARING TO NEW HEIGHTS

SWE president addresses students During Spirt AeroSystems’ visit, members of ECU’s Society of Women Engineers (SWE) were addressed by their organization’s national president. Cindy Hoover, vice president and chief engineer...

Oct 18, 2019
  • Jules Norwood

FEAR IN FILM

Since the earliest days of commercial cinema, filmmakers have produced movies intended to shock and terrify their audience — and viewers keep coming back for more. This Halloween season, Dr....