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At left, Dr. Meghan Scott, a Brody School of Medicine graduate and second-year family medicine resident at ECU, stands with Dr. Jonathon Firnhaber, ECU's family medicine residency program director. ECU has again been ranked as among the top ten in the nation in producing family care physicians. (Photo by Gretchen Baugh)
May 15, 2015
  • Kathryn Kennedy

FAMILY MATTERS

The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University was recognized again this year for the high percentage of its graduates pursuing residency training in family medicine. The American Academy...

May 14, 2015
  • ECU News Services

PUBLIC PARTICIPATION

East Carolina University will host one of four regional input sessions for the public, faculty, staff, students and alumni to give their thoughts on the qualities most needed in the...

May 12, 2015
  • Crystal Baity

OFF THE GRID

This spring, East Carolina University Honors College students spent time learning way outside the classroom – on the Appalachian Trail, 15 feet underwater and behind a camera lens in eastern...

May 12, 2015
  • Amy Adams Ellis

QUALITY OF CARE

A nurse specialist in vascular surgery has been selected by her peers as this year’s top nurse at ECU Physicians, the group medical practice of the Brody School of Medicine...

May 08, 2015
  • Amy Adams Ellis
  • Doug Boyd

GRADUATION DAY

Sunshine lighted the smiles of graduates as they marched into Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium for the 106th spring commencement at East Carolina University today. And even as clouds from Subtropical Storm Ana...

A grant from the SECU Foundation will enable a collaboration with the university that will take ECU students off campus to earn valuable job experience as interns in small-town community organizations. The program will support up to 20 summer internships for sophomore and junior students. Pictured above, students meet with potential employers during the 2014 Career Fair. (Photo by Cliff Hollis)
May 06, 2015
  • Steve Tuttle

COLLABORATIVE APPROACH

East Carolina University will use a $100,000 grant from the State Employees’ Credit Union (SECU) Foundation to fund up to 20 summer internships for undergraduates interested in careers in leadership...

May 04, 2015
  • ECU News Services

RECOGNIZING EXCELLENCE

An organization at East Carolina University honoring medical students who exemplify humanism and professionalism expanded this year to include resident physicians. The Brody School of Medicine Chapter of the Gold...

May 03, 2015
  • Jeannine Manning Hutson

SPRING SPEAKER

The president of the University of North Carolina system, Thomas W. Ross, will deliver the Spring 2015 Commencement address at East Carolina University on Friday, May 8. The commencement ceremony...

Left to right, Seeds to Snacks ECU student intern Morgan Kunsman, sixth-grader Jordan McKenzie and ECU student leader Jordan Hostetler check the soil and mulch around some tomato plants in the garden at the Boys & Girls Club in Winterville. (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
May 01, 2015
  • Crystal Baity

NURTURING HEALTHY CHOICES

An innovative East Carolina University program is planting ideas – and vegetables – with some Pitt County Schools students. Seeds to Snacks is a curriculum that helps teach kids about...

ECU Chancellor Steve Ballard speaks during the university's awards day ceremonies, while Provost Ron Mitchelson studies the order of events. (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Apr 30, 2015
  • Kelly Setzer

CELEBRATING EXCELLENCE

Achievements of East Carolina University’s faculty and staff took center stage at the sixth annual Founders Day and University Awards Celebration on April 29 in Hendrix Theatre. Serving as master...