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Dancers will start the show outside by dancing on seven tons of dirt.
Mar 19, 2019
  • Bri Deel

SPRING DANCE 2019

Seven tons of dirt and dancers will usher in East Carolina University’s Spring Dance 2019. Guests will be greeted with a one-of-a-kind performance at the entrance to McGinnis Theatre beginning...

Mar 18, 2019
  • ECU News Services

ECU Chancellor Cecil P. Staton to step down

Dr. Cecil P. Staton, the 11th chancellor of East Carolina University, announced today that he will step down as chancellor effective May 3, 2019. Chancellor Staton will remain on as an...

Shayna Mooney reacts after learning she will complete her internal medicine residency at Carlilion Clinic-Virginia Tech School of Medicine.
Mar 15, 2019
  • Rob Spahr

MATCH DAY 2019

Fourth-year medical students gathered in the auditorium of ECU’s Brody School of Medicine on Friday – surrounded by their peers, professors and family members – to open letters telling them...

Donterreo Culp, an ECU senior majoring in dance performance, works with high school students in Messick Theatre.
Mar 14, 2019
  • Crystal Baity

FULL ACCESS

A day created especially for theater arts and dance drew about 130 students from across Pitt County to East Carolina University on March 8. ECU faculty, staff, students and alumni...

East Carolina University faculty and administrators toured eastern North Carolina over two days as part of the second annual Purple and Golden Bus Tour. The tour is designed to introduce faculty researchers to the culture, geography, heritage, economy and assets of eastern North Carolina. (Photos by Matt Smith)
Mar 14, 2019
  • Matt Smith

COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS

East Carolina University’s second annual Purple and Golden Bus Tour rolled out of Greenville on March 4, making 10 stops while traveling 423 miles over two days in eastern North...

From left, Dr. Ray Hylock, Dr. Xiaoming Zeng, Dr. Ashkat Kapoor and Dr. Paul Toriello (not pictured) are working on a three year grant from the Kate B. Reynolds Trust to build a data system to track the progress in behavioral health initiatives in Beaufort County.
Mar 13, 2019
  • Natalie Sayewich

CHANGE YOU CAN MEASURE

A grant for more than $400,000 awarded to East Carolina University’s Department of Health Services & Information Management will allow Beaufort County health care professionals to measure the effectiveness of...

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Mar 11, 2019
  • Bri Deel

Student: Epiphany Knedler

Epiphany Knedler is an East Carolina University Master of Fine Arts student who has found a new passion at ECU — teaching. Knedler is originally from South Dakota and graduated...

Students pick up trash along Old River Road northwest of Greenville. (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Mar 06, 2019
  • Crystal Baity

SERVING OTHERS

Service-minded students from East Carolina University spent part of their spring break on a blustery, overcast Monday cleaning up Old River Road north of the Tar River. Students picked up...

The Department of Construction Management’s Dr. George Wang is researching the feasibility of using recycled concrete and other alternative materials to make new concrete. (Photo by Cliff Hollis)
Mar 04, 2019
  • Jules Norwood

CONCRETE SOLUTIONS

An East Carolina University construction management professor and a local construction company have teamed up in search of a solution to a problem facing the North Carolina Department of Transportation...

Nurse Wanda Carter prepares Greenville resident Jason Glisson for an intravenous antibiotic treatment at ECU Physicians’ new infusion center on Hemby Lane in Greenville.
Mar 01, 2019
  • Rob Spahr

MORE EFFICIENT CARE, FOR LESS

Eastern North Carolina residents in need of long-term intravenous antibiotic treatments now have an alternative to receiving those treatments in a hospital. ECU Physicians, the medical practice for the Brody...