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Jun 28, 2018
  • Bri Deel

Student: Stephanie Martinez

Stephanie Martinez is a graduate student in social work at East Carolina University. She earned her bachelor’s degree in social work from ECU in May. “I’ve always been interested in...

ECU professor Ernie Marshburn has developed a new approach to boating safety using an app on boaters’ phones. (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Jun 26, 2018
  • Jules Norwood

BETTER BOATING THROUGH DATA

A new smartphone app called SOBOS — Self-reported On-water Boat Operator Survey — is aimed at changing the face of boating safety by putting data collection in the hands of...

Davarion David, center, and Brittany Hoyt, assistant director at the Pirate Academic Success Center, talk to a summer school student about what the center has to offer while passing out popsicles on the mall Thursday. (Photos by Rhett Butler)
Jun 22, 2018
  • Doug Boyd

BOOSTING ACADEMIC SUCCESS

Students and their families didn’t just receive some popsicles to help cool down at orientation this week. They also got assurances that if they can’t seem to hit their stride...

Dr. Darla Liles with patient Raynelle Phipps
Jun 22, 2018
  • Rob Spahr

TREATING ITP

The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University took part in the study of a new drug recently approved by the FDA to treat a bleeding disorder. Idiopathic thrombocytopenic...

Dr. Kym Gowdy has received a $2.5 million grant to study the effect of pollution on the immune system. (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Jun 21, 2018
  • Jules Norwood

OZONE EXPOSURE

Ground-level air pollution can cause a variety of health problems, and East Carolina University’s Dr. Kym Gowdy is taking a closer look at how and why. Her work, for which...

Skateboards made by ECU students in the School of Art and Design rest on a wall.
Jun 20, 2018
  • Crystal Baity

MADE TO SKATE

Camille Young’s four cousins will receive skateboards as Christmas presents – all made by her in a Summer Session 1 class in East Carolina University’s School of Art and Design....

Jun 14, 2018
  • Rob Spahr

CAMP RAINBOW AND CAMP HOPE

Memphis Gautier sometimes can’t do things that most other kids his age take for granted, such as going to summer camp. The 11-year-old Calypso, N.C. resident has severe hemophilia A,...

Jun 14, 2018
  • Angela Todd

BEGINS JULY 1

All forms of tobacco use will be prohibited within 100 feet of buildings on East Carolina University’s main campus and everywhere on its health sciences campus under a new tobacco...

Dr. Motaleb views the bacteria that cause Lyme disease through a microscope
Jun 08, 2018
  • Jules Norwood

TICK SEASON

Researchers at East Carolina University, with funding from the National Institutes of Health, have declared open season on the bacteria that cause Lyme disease. While rarely fatal, Lyme disease can...

ECU Chancellor Cecil Staton, along with presidents and representatives from 14 eastern North Carolina community colleges, signed a co-admission agreement during a ceremony on June 5. (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Jun 06, 2018
  • Jules Norwood

BREAKING BARRIERS

East Carolina University and 14 community colleges in the surrounding region have signed a co-admission agreement designed to improve transfer student access and success through a collaborative degree completion program....