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May 08, 2013
  • Justin Boulmay

Medical graduate embarks on third career

GREENVILLE, N.C.   (May 8, 2013)   —   After seven years in his previous career, Mike Weeks was looking for more of a challenge. Considering that he’d worked both as...

May 06, 2013
  • Kathryn Kennedy

SERVICE AND SCHOLARSHIP

Final exams and presentations don’t do much to raise the blood pressure of physical therapy student Michelle “Shelley” Spencer. But there’s nothing like being deployed twice to Iraq to put...

May 06, 2013
  • Crystal Baity

DYNAMIC DUO

For better or worse, richer or poorer, and completing graduate school. Stan and Amy Winstead didn’t include an advanced degree in their wedding vows 12 years ago, but mutual encouragement...

May 06, 2013
  • Justin Boulmay

‘A REALLY GOOD JOURNEY’

After seven years in his previous career, Mike Weeks was looking for more of a challenge. Considering that he’d worked both as an accountant and a social worker, Weeks would...

May 06, 2013
  • Steve Tuttle

FAMILY TRADITION

Leona Cox ended up on the front row when the 48 seniors in East Carolina Teacher Training School’s Class of 1915 gathered on the steps of Old Austin for their...

May 03, 2013
  • ECU News Services

TO ADDRESS GRADUATES

An East Carolina University alumna and award-winning developer of children’s programs will deliver the university’s spring 2013 commencement address May 10.  Dr. Valeria O. Lovelace is president and founder of...

May 03, 2013
  • Spaine Stephens

Third annual Coach Rock Cancer Research Golf Classic set for May 13

GREENVILLE, N.C.   (May 3, 2013)   —   The third annual Coach Rock Cancer Research Golf Classic will be held Monday, May 13, at Ironwood Country Club in Greenville. The...

May 01, 2013
  • Alexa DeCarr

COASTAL COUNTY LEADERSHIP

East Carolina University graduate student Ryan Merritt has made a name for himself during his time in North Carolina – particularly in one coastal county. Merritt, who came to ECU...

May 01, 2013
  • Jeannine Manning Hutson

‘THE BEST OF ECU’

The fourth annual Founders Day and University Awards Celebration recognized “the best of East Carolina University” on May 1 in Hendrix Theatre. Provost Marilyn Sheerer welcomed those nominated. “Today we...

Apr 30, 2013
  • Crystal Baity

A HEALTHY MESSAGE

The youth in the Rev. Richard Joyner’s church in Conetoe already are health ambassadors, growing vegetables and teaching neighbors about healthy lifestyles. Joyner recruited more ambassadors April 26 as pastors...