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A partnership between ECU and analytics leader SAS will help boost the university’s work to improve economic, health and education conditions in rural North Carolina and beyond. (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Feb 13, 2018
  • ECU News Services

INNOVATIVE SOFTWARE

East Carolina University and analytics leader SAS will join forces to help rural areas overcome economic, educational and health disparities. Using analytics and data visualization, ECU and SAS will work...

Retired Lt. Gen. Russel L. Honoré met with students Thursday afternoon , Feb. 8, prior to his evening Voyages of Discovery presentation on “Resilient Leadership.”
Feb 09, 2018
  • Lacey L. Gray

RESILIENT LEADERSHIP

Retired Lt. Gen. Russel L. Honoré, commander of Joint Task Force Katrina and Global Preparedness Authority, spoke to an audience of students, faculty and the public at East Carolina University’s...

A $75,000 fund will create scholarships for public health students.
Feb 08, 2018
  • Erin Ward

‘EVEN STRONGER’

A new public health scholarship will help East Carolina University students interested in working in long-term care, an increasingly important area of study as the state and nation’s population ages...

The expanding College STAR program will balance direct support for students with instructional support for faculty who teach diverse groups of learners. (Photo by Rhett Butler)
Feb 07, 2018
  • ECU News Services

$1.5 MILLION GRANT TO EXPAND STUDENT LEARNING

Students with learning differences at East Carolina University and across the country will have better avenues to learning thanks to a $1.5 million grant awarded to ECU by the Oak...

Dr. Linc Conn (right) inspects the work of first-year dental student Rudy Oxendine. Oxendine is a former Greenville police officer. (Photo by Rhett Butler)
Feb 07, 2018
  • Rich Klindworth

FROM SERGEANT TO STUDENT

Being a police officer and a dentist are more similar than one might think. That’s what former Sgt. Rudy Oxendine is realizing as a first-year dental student. “It’s all about...

Dr. Tommy Ellis, medical director for ECU Physicians’ Firetower Medical Office, discusses educational materials on diabetes with a patient. (Photos by Gretchen Baugh)
Feb 06, 2018
  • Rob Spahr

PROJECT CORE

Getting an appointment to see a medical specialist can be a lengthy and costly process for patients. The high demand for appointments, coupled with the limited number of available specialists,...

Brody School of Medicine (Photo by Gretchen Baugh)
Feb 02, 2018
  • Erin Ward

FINDING A CURE

Every day, ECU’s Brody School of Medicine teems with professors and students pipetting cell cultures, analyzing tissues and eyeballing microscopes in the name of cutting-edge research. The Brody Brothers Foundation...

Brody School of Medicine (Photo by Gretchen Baugh)
Feb 01, 2018
  • ECU News Services

‘DEATHS OF DESPAIR’

Middle-aged whites in North Carolina are dying at an unprecedented rate, according to a new study by researchers at East Carolina University. The study – authored by ECU professor emeritus...

Students worked in shallow water to document and map the Pappy’s Lane shipwreck.
Jan 31, 2018
  • Jules Norwood

GROUNDED IN HISTORY

With little to go on but fragments of oral history and the scant clues they could glean from a decaying steel hull, a team of East Carolina University maritime studies...

ECU Honors College student Maggie Marshall demonstrates how virtual reality will be used in a study on balance control and concussion.
Jan 30, 2018
  • Crystal Baity

CONCUSSION AND RECOVERY

Researchers in the Department of Kinesiology at East Carolina University are using virtual reality to study balance control in concussion and recovery. Concussions are most often caused by a blow...