News Archives

Oct 31, 2019
  • ECU News Services

SPOOKY STORIES

Still trying to get into the Halloween "spirit"? Or just can't get enough of #ECUFrightWeek? Trick or treat yourself to these ECU spooky stories – from a how-to safety guide...

Oct 31, 2019
  • Rob Spahr

GROWING BRAINS

When people ask Dr. Karen Litwa what she does for a living, her response is unique. “I say that I’m a brain builder,” she says through a smile. Litwa, an...

Oct 30, 2019
  • Natalie Sayewich

IN YOUR SHOES

A free foot clinic organized and staffed by ECU’s Brody School of Medicine students for Greenville’s homeless population has grown to provide additional services and better access to care for...

Oct 29, 2019
  • Ken Buday

MEDICATION APPLICATION

Understanding the side effects of prescription medicine is not always easy. It can be especially troublesome for those who don’t speak English. Maria Alexandra Ortiz, a junior software engineering student...

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...