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Left to right, Shelley Tripp, a teacher at Bethel School, keys in information for a robot she built with rising seventh-graders Daeshawn Smith and Alyssa Mayo during the inaugural Advanced Manufacturing and Innovation Academy held at ECU. The entrepreneurship, science, technology, engineering, art and design and math or eSTEAM academy was funded by a $1.25 million Golden LEAF Foundation grant. (Photo by Cliff Hollis)
Jul 02, 2015
  • Crystal Baity

INNOVATORS IN ACTION

Rising seventh-grader Alyssa Mayo had never built a robot much less programmed one to move, turn and scoop up a ping pong ball. But she and 40 other middle school...

The Nancy Darden Child Development Center provides child care while offering hands-on experiences for ECU students seeking to learn about early childhood development and education. Pictured above, left to right, preschoolers Sutton Norris and Marai Blanchard enjoy reading time with Breania Best, a teacher assistant in the preschool classroom. (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Jul 01, 2015
  • Kathy Muse

AT DARDEN CENTER

Gray skies and a day-long drizzle prompted a science lesson in teacher Jessica Pate’s preschool classroom in the East Carolina University Nancy Darden Child Development Center. “After it rains, the...

Jul 01, 2015
  • ECU News Services

Ballard to step down as ECU chancellor in 2016

Chancellor Steve Ballard announced today he will step down as East Carolina University's top leader next year, serving in his current role until July 1, 2016. Ballard has served as...

Jun 29, 2015
  • ECU News Services

COMMON INSPIRATION

The theme of this year’s issue of the award-winning North Carolina Literary Review is “North Carolina Literature in a Global Context.” The print issue features cover art by Chapel Hill...

Jun 29, 2015
  • Crystal Baity

FIERY FISH

A 7-foot ceramic fish wowed more than 100 people who watched its fiery debut June 26 on the edge of East Carolina University’s campus. A nearly two-week, laborious process culminated...

ECU graduate student Matt Gallagher, left, talks with an equipment operator at Cherry Research Farm in Goldsboro as part of a N.C. Agromedicine Institute program to improve operator comfort. ECU's involvement in the Agromedicine Institute is one of the attributes that helped ECU earn the designation of an Innovation and Economic Prosperity University from the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities. (Photo by Cliff Hollis)
Jun 24, 2015
  • Doug Boyd

ECONOMIC ENGINE

In recognition of its strong commitment to economic engagement, East Carolina University has been designated as an Innovation and Economic Prosperity University by the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities....

UNC Pembroke Chancellor Kyle Carter and East Carolina University Chancellor Steve Ballard sign a memorandum of understanding that will establish a satellite program for ECU's doctorate in physical therapy at UNCP. The agreement aims to prepare more physical therapists for eastern North Carolina. (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Jun 24, 2015
  • Kathryn Kennedy

SOUTHEAST SATELLITE

A new partnership between East Carolina University and the University of North Carolina at Pembroke aims to increase the number of physical therapists working in eastern North Carolina. ECU Chancellor...

Jun 22, 2015
  • Doug Boyd

DISCOVERY DOLLARS

When the little pin-tailed whydah chirps and flaps its wings in Africa, not much happens in the rest of the world. But what the bird might teach scientists about brain...

ECU Physicians’ online patient portal, MyChart, allows individuals like ECU student Summer Tillman, pictured above using the MyChart web site, to access their health care team electronically. (Photo by Cliff Hollis)
Jun 17, 2015
  • Amy Adams Ellis

PAPERLESS PRACTICE

The clinical practice of the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University has been recognized for significantly improving patient care through the use of their electronic medical record system....

Health Education and Promotion professor Dr. Lei Xu, left, speaks with pharmacology professor Dr. Ken Soderstrom. Soderstrom has participated in Xu's research on genetic testing with parents of children with autism. (Photo by Cliff Hollis)
Jun 11, 2015
  • Crystal Baity

GENETIC LITERACY

A researcher at East Carolina University has been studying what parents of children with autism spectrum disorder know and how they make decisions about genetic testing. Dr. Lei Xu, assistant...