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Feb 15, 2016
  • Jules Norwood

SOLE FOOD

Hundreds of pairs of shoes, each with a story to tell, filled the mall near the cupola on East Carolina University’s campus on Feb. 11. The S.H.O.E.S. Project, which stands...

ECU doctoral student Dan Blocker and graduate student Meagan Collins are working with Drs. Jake Jensen, foreground, and Matt Fish, not pictured, on a study to determine how confiding in friends about relationship problems is linked to the overall quality of the relationship. (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Feb 11, 2016
  • Kathy Muse

CUPID’S CONFIDANTE

Dan Blocker is learning to pay more attention to where he turns, and why, when it comes to discussing disagreements with his wife. Blocker, a medical family therapy doctoral student...

Chancellor Steve Ballard accepts the Leo M. Lambert Engaged Leader Award from the North Carolina Campus Compact at its 16th annual conference held at High Point University. (Photos by Jay Clark)
Feb 10, 2016
  • Jackie Drake

CHANGING COMMUNITIES

Universities play a leading role in changing communities, and East Carolina University has been recognized as a leader among North Carolina institutions. Chancellor Steve Ballard today received the Leo M....

Randy and Laura Strickland visit occupational therapy students. More occupational therapy graduates will be able to pursue advanced degrees thanks to a scholarship endowment from their bequest. (Photo by Cliff Hollis)
Feb 09, 2016
  • Jackie Drake

CARING FOR THE FUTURE

An increase in private investment over the past year is expanding educational opportunities for health sciences students at East Carolina University and improving quality of care for patients. Through January...

Vashti Kitrell from the Pitt Co. Health Department discusses a display in the lobby of the ECHI with ECU's Xiaoming Zeng during the Mills Symposium. (Photos by Jay Clark)
Feb 08, 2016
  • Jules Norwood

TACKLING TEEN HEALTH

The issues and challenges surrounding teen health were the focus of the 12th annual Jean Mills Health Symposium, held Feb. 5 at the East Carolina Heart Institute at East Carolina...

Located near Windsor, Hope Plantation was the home of former N.C. Governor David Stone and is one of six eastern N.C. historic sites included in research aimed at increasing minority visitation. (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Feb 04, 2016
  • Jules Norwood

REFLECTING HISTORY

One East Carolina University student’s research could help museums, plantations and Civil War sites in ongoing efforts to present a balanced view of history and to attract more minority visitors....

Dr. Christopher Geyer and his team at the Brody School of Medicine are researching the earliest stages of the male reproductive process. The results of the project could significantly advance understanding of how fertility is maintained throughout the male reproductive lifespan.
Feb 03, 2016
  • Jules Norwood

DELICATE BALANCE

Throughout a decades-long reproductive lifespan, the human male body maintains a delicate balance related to sperm production that has direct public health implications related to both infertility and testicular cancer....

Steve Jones, head of the search committee and chair of the Board of Trustees, leads the discussion at the Jan. 28 Chancellor Search Committee meeting. Lucy Leske, senior partner of Witt/Kieffer, right, provided the committee with an evaluation rubric. (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Jan 28, 2016
  • Jamie Smith

EVALUATING CANDIDATES

Members of the Chancellor Search Committee met Jan. 28 to discuss how they will review potential candidates for the next leader of East Carolina University. “The process is going as...

Drew Yowell, an ECU junior, will be performing in Dance 2016 which opens Jan. 28 at McGinnis Theatre. Here, Yowell dances in “Rhapsody” choreographed by Zalman Raffael Grinberg, who is choregrapher in residence at the Carolina Ballet. (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Jan 27, 2016
  • Crystal Baity

REHEARSAL TO STAGE

From contemporary to classical ballet, a diverse mix of styles will highlight East Carolina University’s Dance 2016 opening Jan. 28. Drew Yowell, an ECU junior who will dance in works...

ECU sophomore Emmett Sarkorh asks a question during the Brewster Forum, part of the Voyages of Discovery Lecture Series, on Jan. 26. Attendees explored the challenge of reconciling history with contemporary realities in the naming of memorials. (Photos by Jay Clark)
Jan 27, 2016
  • Jules Norwood

MONUMENTAL DISCUSSION

The controversy and debate surrounding memorials and building names, and the role they play in shaping our collective memory and understanding of history, have played out in recent years locally,...