News Archives

Jun 10, 2016
  • Jackie Drake

SERVING THROUGH MUSIC

From reveille to taps, music is an essential part of military service, and alumni of East Carolina University play a vital role in providing musical inspiration to the U.S. Army....

Jun 10, 2016
  • Jamie Smith

BECOMING A PIRATE

This summer approximately 4,000 excited students and their families will descend onto East Carolina University’s campus for a taste of the college experience that awaits them in the fall. Spread...

Jun 09, 2016
  • Sophronia Knott

CLEAN FUTURE

East Carolina University Transit received the inaugural Clean Future Award from Greenville Utilities Commission on June 8. The award was presented by GUC officials at a ceremony at its new...

Jun 07, 2016
  • Amy Adams Ellis

TARGETED TREATMENT

Physicians at East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine are the first in the mid-Atlantic region to offer a new treatment option for pancreatic cancer. The treatment involves the use...

Jun 03, 2016
  • Sophronia Knott

PIRATE READ

Incoming East Carolina University students will explore complex themes of racial injustice before even stepping foot into a classroom with this year’s Pirate Read selection. Bryan Stevenson’s memoir “Just Mercy”...

Jun 01, 2016
  • Crystal Baity

WHERE THERE’S SMOKE

An East Carolina University researcher and colleagues at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have found broad support for raising the minimum age for tobacco sales in North...

May 31, 2016
  • Crystal Baity
  • Jackie Drake

‘GREAT BENEFIT’

A new training course and flight simulator used by U.S. Army and Air Force cadets at East Carolina University is helping develop the nation's future military leaders. Unique among schools...

May 27, 2016
  • Spaine Stephens

SERVING THOSE WHO SERVE

The accolades have been numerous - East Carolina University is recognized nationally as a university dedicated to those who have served in the Armed Forces. And for the College of...

May 26, 2016
  • Jules Norwood

OCEAN OUTREACH

For years, beachgoers have learned to “break the grip of the rip” by swimming parallel to shore to escape currents pulling them out to sea. Now a partnership of researchers,...

May 25, 2016
  • Rich Klindworth

NEW HEIGHTS

When Avion Jones’ mom named him, she probably didn’t know he’d make his mark by flying. But the East Carolina University senior high jumper, whose name means “airplane” in Spanish,...