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Oct 04, 2019
  • Rich Klindworth

DEBT-FREE EDUCATION

It’s a typical beautiful, sunny and hot eastern North Carolina summer day. While many students are enjoying their time off from school, Caitlin Palmer has her lab coat on inside...

Valerie Cook takes a photo of her daughter Taylor at the Main Campus Student Center
Oct 02, 2019
  • Jamie Smith

FINDING THEIR PLACE

Staff and volunteers spent Saturday, Sept. 28, showing more than 1,250 potential Pirates why they should call East Carolina University home. ECU’s annual Fall Open House brings high school and...

Oct 02, 2019
  • Kelly Rogers Dilda

VIRTUAL REALITY COMES TO ECU

User-friendly virtual reality has arrived on ECU’s Health Sciences Campus. Laupus Library has unveiled a new Virtual Reality Lab, a virtual reality learning, experimentation and development workspace on the second...

Oct 01, 2019
  • Crystal Baity

HEALTHY FARMWORKERS

Heat-related illnesses, pesticide exposure and other occupational hazards face migrant and seasonal farmworkers each day. But a new three-year, $427,551 health disparities grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National...

Sep 30, 2019
  • Ken Buday

MYSTERIES OF THE DEEP

Maybe more than most, students and faculty in the East Carolina University Program for Maritime Studies live a Pirate’s life, diving deep into the robust maritime history of coastal North...

Sep 27, 2019
  • Doug Boyd

WHAT IS IMPEACHMENT?

This week, the U.S House of Representatives began an impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump regarding a July 25 phone call between him and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. A transcript...

Sep 27, 2019
  • Erin Ward

DEDICATED TO DENTISTRY

On a hot summer day in New Bern, long lines of people waited to get into the Garber United Methodist Church, but not to worship. On this day, the pews...

Behavioral health consultants provide ongoing services for short-term behavioral health concerns. (Photo by Cliff Hollis)
Sep 26, 2019
  • Spaine Stephens

COLLABORATIONS IN CARE

A unique grant celebrates East Carolina University’s commitment to using interprofessional collaboration to address emerging and challenging trends in health care, including opioid use and substance abuse prevention and treatment....

Sep 26, 2019
  • Kelly Rusk

CONNECTING PAST AND PRESENT

One thousand high school students from across the region visited East Carolina University’s campus last week but it wasn’t for an admissions tour. They came to experience a performance of...

Sep 25, 2019
  • Grady Dillon

‘THE WOLVES’

TICKETS Sept. 25-27, 30; Oct. 1-4 - 7:30 p.m. Sept. 28-29 - 2 p.m. $15 Public | $10 Students East Carolina University students will perform “The Wolves,” a story about...