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May 05, 2018
  • Crystal Baity
  • Jules Norwood

THE BUSINESS OF SUCCESS

Fireworks flew and tassels turned on a beautiful spring night in Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium as 5,479 students graduated from East Carolina University on May 4. The fireworks capped off a new...

East Carolina University psychiatry residents Dr. Roopma Wadhwa, Dr. Vikas Gupta and Dr. Rachel Gooding (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Apr 30, 2018
  • Rob Spahr

ECU MAKES MINDGAMES FINALS

A team of East Carolina University psychiatry residents training at Vidant Medical Center was the top qualifier for the finals of a nationwide competition organized by the American Psychiatric Association....

After a successful kidney transplant, Brandon Hodges (left) said he “feels amazing.”
Apr 26, 2018
  • ECU Contributor

NEW LEASE ON LIFE

“It was a life-changing experience.” That’s how Brandon Hodges describes the kidney transplant he received a couple of months ago at Vidant Medical Center (VMC). Hodges, 42, is a physical...

Photography by Rob Goldberg
Apr 25, 2018
  • Bre Lewis

Student: Rachel Renfrow

Rachel Renfrow is a senior business management major from Wilson, a midfielder and center back for the ECU women’s soccer team, and a standout student in the College of Business....

Conservators at the Queen Anne’s Revenge Project lift a cannon out of its tank during the lab’s annual open house. (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Apr 24, 2018
  • Jules Norwood

SCIENCE AND PIRATES

FIRE! The blast of a cannon ripped through the air to the delight of onlookers outside the Queen Anne’s Revenge Conservation Laboratory at East Carolina University during the fourth annual...

Student Government Association President La’Quon Rogers presents his report to the ECU Board of Trustees. (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Apr 20, 2018
  • ECU News Services

DEGREES CONFERRED

During its meeting on April 20, the East Carolina University Board of Trustees approved the conferral of 5,282 degrees for spring commencement, which will take place at 7 p.m. May...

Chancellor Cecil Staton awards the Amethyst vase twice a year to individuals, couples, foundations, and corporate partners who generously support ECU.
Apr 20, 2018
  • Erin Ward

CHANCELLOR’S AMETHYST

Thanks to donor initiatives, an East Carolina University student with dyslexia is succeeding in his classes, a nursing student with financial need is getting help paying for her education, and...

Jayme Johns as Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons, and Joseph Webster as Theseus, Duke of Athens. (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Apr 19, 2018
  • Bre Lewis

PAIN AND PASSION

A tale filled with lovers and fairies takes stage at McGinnis Theatre as William Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” opens at East Carolina University on April 19. “‘Midsummer’ is a comedy...

ECU junior Chaniya Tingley has been awarded the Captain Christopher Cash Memorial Scholarship.
Apr 19, 2018
  • Crystal Baity

IN MEMORY

Chaniya Tingley didn’t know Capt. Chris Cash but her father, Craig, served in the same N.C. National Guard infantry battalion as Cash in Iraq. Now an East Carolina University junior,...

ECU surgeons conduct POEM procedure at Vidant Medical Center. (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Apr 17, 2018
  • Rob Spahr

TREATING ACHALASIA

Eating is one of the basic functions of life, but something that is often not possible for the approximately 200,000 U.S. residents living with achalasia. The rare disorder occurs when...