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Mar 02, 2018
  • Jules Norwood

POWER UP

As of the first week of January, dozens of high school students knew they’d be working together to build robots to compete in a global competition, but they didn’t know...

Mar 01, 2018
  • Jeannine Manning Hutson

‘EXPERIENCE AND CREATIVITY’

A certified public accountant with experience in corporations and higher education has been selected by East Carolina University to lead its administration and finance division. The ECU Board of Trustees...

An ECU social work graduate student participates in a Mursion lab simulation exercise.
Mar 01, 2018
  • Crystal Baity

LIFE-LIKE THERAPY

East Carolina University social work students are using a virtual environment to talk with life-like teenagers about their parents’ drug use. The ECU School of Social Work has teamed with...

Dr. Stanley G. Eakins will step down as the College of Business dean after eight years at the helm. (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Feb 27, 2018
  • Michael Rudd

EAKINS STEPS DOWN

After serving as dean for more than six years, Dr. Stanley G. Eakins will step down as the College of Business leader June 30. Prior to being named dean in...

Research by Dr. Jitka Virag, an associate professor in the Department of Physiology at the Brody School of Medicine at ECU.
Feb 27, 2018
  • Rob Spahr

STAT MADNESS

Imagine that someone suffering from a heart attack could have their life saved by the administration of a protein instead of having to undergo a stent placement or heart transplant...

The inaugural Pirate Entrepreneurship Challenge concluded with $20,000 awarded to three ECU student teams. (Photos by Rhett Butler)
Feb 26, 2018
  • Michael Rudd

WINNING AT ENTREPRENEURSHIP

The inaugural, three-round Pirate Entrepreneurship Challenge concluded Feb. 22 with Simple and Sentimental LLC taking first place and a cash prize of $12,500. The company is owned and operated by...

(Photo by Cliff Hollis)
Feb 23, 2018
  • Michael Rudd

SPACE FOR INNOVATION

East Carolina University’s Board of Trustees approved the establishment of the Van and Jennifer Isley Innovation Building, which is made possible thanks to a $2 million College of Business (COB) gift...

Anne Dickerson (left) is congratulated by ECU Chancellor Cecil Staton (from center), Provost Ron Mitchelson and Vice Chancellor Phyllis Horns after receiving the Lifetime Research and Creative Activity Award. (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Feb 22, 2018
  • Matt Smith

RESEARCHERS SALUTED

East Carolina University honored some of its faculty members Feb. 20 at the second annual Research and Creative Activity Awards Ceremony. Researchers were presented with the Lifetime Research and Creative...

Photography by Rhett Butler
Feb 21, 2018
  • Bre Lewis

Student: Ebone Evans

Ebone Evans of Durham is a third-year student in the Brody School of Medicine. She completed her undergraduate degree from Winston-Salem State University, majoring in biology. During her time there,...

Dr. Mark Stacy awarded $2.6 million in funding for faculty-generated initiatives from the start-up package he received when he became the dean of ECU’s Brody School of Medicine. (Photo by Rhett Butler)
Feb 21, 2018
  • Rob Spahr

BUILDING A BETTER BRODY

When Dr. Mark Stacy was interviewing to be the next dean of ECU’s Brody School of Medicine, he got the sense that it was an institution that had learned to...