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Oct 16, 2017
  • ECU News Services

2017 Fall Open House

Oct 13, 2017
  • Crystal Baity
  • Jules Norwood
  • Michael Rudd

ECU welcomes BOG

Dr. Stan Eakins, dean of the College of Business, addresses members of the UNC Board of Governors at a reception on Oct. 12. (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Oct 13, 2017
  • Michael Rudd

RECOGNIZING EXCELLENCE

East Carolina University’s College of Business has earned the Milestone 2 Award from the North Carolina Awards for Excellence program. UNC President Margaret Spellings presented the award to Dr. Stan...

Oct 12, 2017
  • Natalie Sayewich

A NATIONAL LEADER

The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University (ECU) was ranked second in the nation among M.D.-granting medical schools — and first in the state — this year for...

A student sits in the ECU Air Force ROTC flight simulator in Wright Annex.
Oct 11, 2017
  • Crystal Baity

RIGHT OF LINE

East Carolina University’s Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) Detachment 600 has been honored as one of the best in the nation. The group has received the Right of...

Mathin Ange
Oct 09, 2017
  • Bre Lewis

Student: Mathin Ange

Mathin Ange is a senior studying elementary education at East Carolina University. “I applied for a scholarship here and completely fell in love with everyone in the College of Education,”...

Author Colson Whitehead reads from and fields questions about his novel “The Underground Railroad”.
Oct 05, 2017
  • Spaine Stephens

UNDERGROUND RAILROAD

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Colson Whitehead read from his acclaimed novel “The Underground Railroad” to a packed Wright Auditorium Wednesday evening, Oct. 4, the second guest in the Thomas Harriot College...

At left, Dr. Cecil Staton, chancellor of ECU, watches as workers from T.A. Loving/Barnhill prepare the construction beam that was signed by students, staff, faculty and administrators for installation.
Oct 04, 2017
  • Crystal Baity

TOPPING OFF

A tower crane carried the final beam of the new East Carolina University student center to its destination under a beautiful blue, fall sky on Oct. 4. Ten years in...

Students in ECU’s School of Theatre and Dance are performing “Sense and Sensibility” through Oct. 3.
Sep 29, 2017
  • Bre Lewis

TIMELESS LOVE STORY

The Dashwood sisters are still finding their balance in this adaptation to Jane Austen’s “Sense and Sensibility,” which opened Sept. 28 in McGinnis Theatre at East Carolina University. Set in...

Psychiatrist Vivek Anand, right, and research coordinator Janet Benjamin, left, are conducting a study analyzing the brain’s response to smoking imagery.
Sep 28, 2017
  • Jules Norwood

WHY PEOPLE SMOKE

Two years ago, East Carolina University psychiatrist Vivek Anand documented adolescent use of and opinions on electronic cigarettes. Now, he’s pinpointing the mechanisms behind smoking behavior. Anand’s 2015 findings showed...