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Dec 13, 2025
  • ECU News Services

Graduate Profiles: Fall 2025

The fall Class of 2025 reflects the mission and resilience that defines East Carolina University. Following are five graduates whose paths to commencement weaved through bedsides in the mountains delivering...

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Dec 13, 2025
  • Benjamin Abel

Belinda Lashea – Nursing

Dr. Belinda Lashea is from North Carolina’s mountains, and at 18 she became a mother. The baby was born in a hospital in Wilmington, but mother and child soon returned...

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Dec 13, 2025
  • Ronnie Woodward

Andrew DiCuirci – Computer Science

East Carolina University is ready to welcome a patriotic DiCuirci family tradition. Andrew DiCuirci is the youngest of three sons and will graduate Friday with a Bachelor of Science in...

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Dec 12, 2025
  • Alondra Martinez

Student: Cooper Hilbert

East Carolina University senior Cooper Hilbert has spent his college career exploring how cities work and how they can work better. What began as simple curiosity grew into a passion...

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Dec 11, 2025
  • Bobby Ampezzan

Hands-on anatomy broadens horizons for eastern North Carolina high schoolers

On the seventh floor of the Brody School of Medicine, in the pathology lab space, Rachel Smith stood in scrubs and nitrile gloves and lifted a dissected aorta, then a...

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Dec 11, 2025
  • ECU News Services

Happy Holidays from Pirate Nation

  This season, we’re celebrating the memories that bring us together and the moments still to come. Thank you for being a part of the community that makes East Carolina...

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Dec 09, 2025
  • Benjamin Abel

Animal partners prepare counseling students for challenging client work

Dr. Celeste Crawford, a clinical associate professor in East Carolina University’s Department of Addictions and Rehabilitation Studies and director of the Navigate Counseling Clinic, usually has a teaching assistant at...

Dec 08, 2025
  • Lacey L. Gray

Digital humanities projects foster student leadership

Seeing historic locations with one’s own eyes, hearing sounds of a bustling city, feeling cobblestone walkways underfoot, and smelling and tasting delicacies from a foreign culture are experiences that last...

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Dec 02, 2025
  • Alondra Martinez

Student: RaSheeda Waddell

RaSheeda Waddell’s journey at East Carolina University began with music but it has evolved into a path of remarkable achievement in higher education as she works toward her Doctor of...

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Dec 02, 2025
  • Bobby Ampezzan

Upon retirement, a Navy captain charts a course expanding physician training in eastern North Carolina

For Dr. Jason Higginson, the appeal of military service was never about rank and ribbons. It was about purpose — the same principle that drives the mission of East Carolina...