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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...

Gloria Savage gets her blood pressure checked during the Jean Mills Health Symposium on Feb. 22.
Mar 01, 2019
  • Natalie Sayewich

IMPLEMENTING CHANGE

When Rev. Richard Joyner noticed a concerning trend of young people dying of chronic, preventable diseases in his small community of Conetoe, he went looking for solutions at the institutional...

Feb 26, 2019
  • ECU News Services

CELEBRATING ARTS

East Carolina University’s Carroll V. Dashiell Jr. was one of 50 African-American musicians, writers and artists honored on Feb. 14 by North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper and First Lady Kristin...

Set in 1962,
Feb 25, 2019
  • Erin Ward

BEST PICTURE

At his Oscars watch party on Sunday, East Carolina University alumnus Von Lewis eagerly awaited the award for best picture. When it was announced that “Green Book” had won, he...

Photography by Rhett Butler
Feb 25, 2019
  • Bri Deel

Student: Austin Allen

Austin Allen truly is a jack of all trades. Allen is a senior who excels in a multitude of areas at East Carolina University. Allen is a Chancellors Fellow in...

Pirate Entrepreneurship Challenge final round winners Camden Bathras, left, and Steven Lipscomb receive congratulations at the Murphy Center Thursday, Feb. 22, 2019.
Feb 22, 2019
  • Michael Rudd

CHALLENGE MET

The second, three-round Pirate Entrepreneurship Challenge concluded Feb. 21 with student-team Vybe taking first place and a cash prize of $15,000. Vybe is an application that allows users to track...

Clinton Van Zandt, retired FBI profiler and hostage negotiator.
Feb 22, 2019
  • Lacey L. Gray

UNDERSTANDING HUMAN BEHAVIOR

Clinton Van Zandt, retired FBI criminal profiler and hostage negotiator, was welcomed to East Carolina University and the Greenville community on Feb. 21 as the third presenter in the 2018-2019...