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Andrea RayoSoto builds a robot during STEM camp. (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Jul 27, 2018
  • Michael Rudd

GIRLS IN STEM

Thanks to a $35,000 grant from Duke Energy, East Carolina University hosted a residential STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) camp that focused specifically on computer technology, computer programming and...

Master Patrol Officer David Heath trains Koda, ECU’s new police K-9.
Jul 24, 2018
  • Jamie Smith

SUMMER TRAINING

Summer is anything but boring for East Carolina University Police. Empty residence halls and classroom buildings, along with a lack of students on campus provide unique training opportunities for officers...

ECU professor Dr. Brandon Schultz reviews literature on video game design in a computer lab in the Rawl Buidling. Schultz was awarded a $1.38 million grant to study the effects of a video game on teaching academic skills adolescents with ADHD. (Photo by Rhett Butler)
Jul 18, 2018
  • Lacey L. Gray

GAME ON

A $1.38 million national grant awarded to an East Carolina University researcher will examine how a serious video game may help young adolescents with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder or ADHD...

ECU graduate student Tyler Beasley will serve as the first graduate student representative for the UNC Association of Student Governments. (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Jul 17, 2018
  • Bri Deel

Student: Tyler Beasley

Tyler Beasley, a longtime Pirate, has now put East Carolina University on a state-level map. As the first graduate student representative for the UNC Association of Student Governments, ECU can...

From left, Haley Creef, treasurer; Jordan Koonts, president; Lillie Rhodes, vice president; Colin Johnson, speaker of the assembly; and Jessie Jefferys, secretary. (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Jul 16, 2018
  • Bri Deel

LEADING THE WAY

The new Student Government Association officers of East Carolina University are ready to take on the new school year with plans to improve the experience of being a Pirate. Student...

Chancellor Cecil Staton, left, and Catherine Staton sign the final steel beam for the Southside Expansion
Jul 13, 2018
  • ECU News Services

ALL HANDS ON DECK

The topping out ceremony for the $60 million expansion project at Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium was held July 12 in conjunction with the summer meeting of the ECU Board of Trustees in...

Jul 11, 2018
  • ECU News Services

STRENGTHENING GREEK LIFE

A 16-member task force has been appointed by East Carolina University Chancellor Cecil Staton to examine major aspects of Greek life at the university, to identify and consider nationally recognized...

Group of teens talking and laughing
Jul 10, 2018
  • Michael Rudd

INNOVATION STARTS YOUNG

Could the next Elon Musk be found in the high schools of Pitt County? If so, East Carolina University and the College of Business’ (COB) Miller School of Entrepreneurship want...

Student reading
Jul 09, 2018
  • Bri Deel

READING TO CONNECT

The East Carolina University Pirate Read committee has announced the books that all incoming students are asked to read for the 2018-19 and 2019-20 school years. They are “The Last...

Jul 06, 2018
  • Kristin Zachary

Midsummer Melodies