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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...

Current, ex-officio and emerita board members of The Women's Roundtable who attended the spring meeting included, left to right: Deborah Davis ’79, ’83, Jeanne Rucks ’85, Chair-Elect Sue Collier ’81, ’91, Valeria Lassiter ’90, Julie Batton ’96, Director of Women’s Philanthropy Stephanie Bunn, Chair Gail Herring ’79, Dr. Virginia Hardy ’93, Kay Chalk ’76, Vice Chancellor for University Advancement Chris Dyba, Mary Plybon ’71, SGA Secretary Katie Swanner, Toya Jacobs ’97, ’06, Dr. Carolyn Breedlove ’70, Martha Logemann, Amanda Tilley ’03. Not pictured were Kara Blount ’96, Sabrina Bengel, Sheilah Cotton ’75, ’77, Nicole Kloss ’00, Brenda Myrick ’92, Allison Peel ’99, Mary Schulken ’79 and Nancy Ballard (Ex-Officio). (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Apr 28, 2015
  • ECU News Services

‘BOLD AND AMBITIOUS GOAL’

The Women’s Roundtable at East Carolina University plans to endow two new undergraduate student scholarships through a two-year, $300,000 fundraising campaign. The endowments will provide annual financial support for an...

Apr 27, 2015
  • Grace Haskin

SMART FINANCES

A personal finance class at East Carolina University has inspired students to save a combined $100,000 each semester for the past five years. The ECU College of Business instructors Len...

Chancellor Steve Ballard, right, recognizes outgoing board chairman Robert Brinkley during the April 24 meeting of the ECU Board of Trustees. Brinkley served on the board for eight years. (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Apr 24, 2015
  • Crystal Baity
  • Kelly Setzer

MOVING FORWARD

East Carolina University leaders say work is continuing on the development of Heritage Hall, a permanent place where people of historical significance to the university will be recognized. ECU’s Board...

At the first Medical Education Day at ECU, Dr. Elizabeth Baxley, senior associate dean for academic affairs at the Brody School of Medicine, left, speaks with keynote speaker Dr. Rajesh Mangrulkar, associate dean for medical school education at the University of Michigan. ECU and the University of Michigan are among 11 schools selected nationwide to reshape medical education. (Photos by Gretchen Baugh)
Apr 24, 2015
  • Amy Adams Ellis

LEARNING AND LEADING

Innovations in medical education were showcased and shared April 22 as health sciences faculty and learners from across East Carolina University gathered at the East Carolina Heart Institute at ECU...