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Nov 21, 2019
  • Ken Buday
  • Rob Spahr

DEPLOYED FOR THE HOLIDAYS

East Carolina University alumna Mikhayla Dunn serves as a combat medic in the Army National Guard. The specialist sees good things in her military service. “By far the best part...

Nov 21, 2019
  • Doug Boyd

THE SEASON FOR SAVING

Here’s bad news for college students: A Princeton University study says financial stress can make you less smart. “When human beings see scarcity, they go into survival mode,” said Dean...

Nov 21, 2019
  • Jules Norwood

AFTER THE FLOOD

Eastern North Carolina has seen its share of hurricanes in recent years. They blow in, flooding homes and businesses and leaving thousands of displaced residents in their wake, unable to...

Nov 20, 2019
  • Spaine Stephens

SMILES FOR VETERANS

Gordon Gaebel Jr. reclined in a dental chair during the ECU Smiles for Veterans event and took several deep, calming breaths. It wasn’t until he locked eyes with his dentist...

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...