News Archives

May 28, 2019
  • Jules Norwood

ECUWORKS

During the 2018-19 academic year, East Carolina University launched a pilot program aimed at reducing student debt. Campus Living’s ECUWorks program gives first-year students the opportunity to work on campus...

May 28, 2019
  • Crystal Baity

HEELING IS HEALING

Brent Carpenter says he sometimes feels like a duck out of water, but research at East Carolina University is helping him get back in his element by learning to sail....

May 24, 2019
  • Erin Ward

GALLUP SURVEY HIGHLIGHTS

East Carolina University graduates are well prepared for life after graduation, actively engaged at work and feel their education was worth the cost, a recent Gallup survey found. ECU was...

May 22, 2019
  • Spaine Stephens

HIGHEST FACULTY HONOR

CHAPEL HILL — A Brody School of Medicine psychiatrist has joined a prestigious group of East Carolina University professors bestowed with the UNC System’s highest faculty honor. Dr. Sy Saeed,...

May 21, 2019
  • Jules Norwood

PIRATES’ GOLD

East Carolina University’s Health Sciences Campus has about 20,000 new residents this week following the installation of two hives of western honey bees near Lake Laupus. Chad Carwein, ECU sustainability...

May 20, 2019
  • Lacey L. Gray

SERVING OUR COUNTRY

This May, three East Carolina University health psychology doctoral students were commissioned into the U.S. Air Force, bringing the total to four students commissioned from one program in the past...

May 17, 2019
  • Matt Smith

INTERNATIONAL CONNECTION

An East Carolina University associate professor will travel to Zambia next year to assist in water quality testing of the African nation’s groundwater system. Alex Manda, a hydrogeologist in the...

May 16, 2019
  • Erin Ward

ADVANCING IDEAS

In the world of university advancement, institutions are ultimately judged by the dollars that are brought in the door that help students achieve educational success and universities enhance resources. Providing...

May 15, 2019
  • Matt Smith

TESTING FOR MONOGAMY?

An East Carolina University faculty member is part of an international research team that may one day lead humans to use biology – not body chemistry – to find their...

May 14, 2019
  • Rob Spahr

CONGRESSIONAL TESTIMONY

A researcher at ECU’s Brody School of Medicine testified before a U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee Wednesday, May 15, about the negative health effects of chemical compounds that are estimated...