News Archives

Oct 10, 2019
  • Ken Buday

RESEARCH WORK AHEAD

Saving lives and saving money are the main goals of six N.C. Department of Transportation (DOT) grants totaling more than $862,000 received by faculty in East Carolina University’s College of...

Oct 09, 2019
  • Ken Buday

SURGICAL SUPPORT

For the first time, a company started by East Carolina University faculty members has received a Phase II Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) grant from the National Institutes of Health....

Oct 08, 2019
  • Rob Spahr

TEACHERS OF QUALITY

The Brody School of Medicine’s innovative Teachers of Quality Academy (TQA) – which trains healthcare professionals to improve quality in health care delivery – recently welcomed its fourth cohort. The...

Oct 07, 2019
  • Grady Dillon

Student: Liz Blumthal

Liz Blumthal wants to leave her legacy at East Carolina University while preparing to care for others. Blumthal, a junior from Suwannee, Georgia, is an Honors College student with a...

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...