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Nick Dixon examines artwork he created with help from ECU student participants in the Eye to Eye afterschool mentoring program, which pairs college students with learning disabilities with local students who share the same obstacles. ECU's chapter of the nationwide program will benefit from a grant from William R. Kenan Jr. Charitable Trust. (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Jan 26, 2015
  • ECU News Services

TARGETED ASSISTANCE

An East Carolina University program that assists college students with learning disabilities will get an important boost from a two-year grant recently awarded by the William R. Kenan Jr. Charitable...

Jan 23, 2015
  • ECU News Services

JUST CHILLING

A record-setting 1,145 Pirates braved temperatures in the 40s Jan. 22 to jump into the icy waters of the outdoor swimming pool at East Carolina University’s Student Recreation Center. In...

Ashley Williams, project librarian at ECU's Joyner Library, displays some of the materials being catalogued from hundreds of outdoor theaters for an online inventory. (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Jan 22, 2015
  • Crystal Baity

UNDER THE OPEN SKY

East Carolina University archivists are in the middle of a yearlong project to catalogue everything from film reels to financial statements from more than 600 outdoor theaters across the nation....

Mitzi Miller, editor-in-chief of Ebony magazine, shared a message about pursuing one’s dreams during ECU’s annual MLK celebration. Before her presentation, she interacted with a selected group of ECU students. (Photo by Cliff Hollis)
Jan 21, 2015
  • Jamitress Bowden

‘GETTING THE JOB DONE’

Accept responsibility when it comes, the editor-in-chief of Ebony magazine Mitzi Miller told a crowd at East Carolina University Tuesday night. Even though a task may seem overwhelming, she said,...

Jan 20, 2015
  • Kelly Setzer

ECU to host two public forums on Aycock naming

East Carolina University will host two public forums to gather feedback on the naming of Charles B. Aycock Residence Hall — one session focused on students’ opinions and the other...

ECU geology graduate student Adam Trevisan heads to a research site carrying an electromagnetic induction profiler, used to trace water impurities so ECU researchers can follow where groundwater is flowing underground. The work is part of a collaborative effort to examine water contaminants that may migrate from home septic systems. (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Jan 20, 2015
  • Doug Boyd

‘EMERGING CONTAMINANTS’

Endocrine Disruption a Growing Threat Exposure to low-levels of some contaminants can cause disruption of endocrine functions, such as reproduction, in animals. This disruption occurs when the contaminants modulate, mimic...

Jan 15, 2015
  • Amy Adams Ellis

NOVEL APPROACH

Two East Carolina University researchers have received funding for a project that could lead to better quality of life for people living with chronic pain. Drs. Sonja Bareiss and Kori...

Associate professor Rosana Ferreira, center, from ECU's Department of Geography, Planning and Environment, works with graduate student Mark Nissenbaum, left, and undergraduate Joel McAuliffe. A grant from the ECU Faculty Senate enabled Ferreira to create a virtual weather forecasting teaching laboratory (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Jan 13, 2015
  • Grace Haskin

SUPPORTING FELLOW TEACHERS

East Carolina University faculty who can generate creative, innovative ways of teaching course materials are eligible for grants offered by Teaching Grants Committee of ECU’s Faculty Senate. “The grants are...

Jan 08, 2015
  • Crystal Baity

A SEASON FOR MUSIC

Cellists, pianists, violinists and violists from around the world have converged at East Carolina University for its first-ever Winter Workshop. The workshop, a new component of the Four Seasons Chamber...

Jan 07, 2015
  • Crystal Baity

‘PROMISE TO THE PUBLIC’

East Carolina University has earned higher education’s top honor for community engagement. The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching announced Jan. 7 that ECU received the 2015 Community Engagement...