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Roger Russell, associate director of Laupus Library, and Jamie Bloss, library associate professor and Laupus liaison librarian, partnered to lead a grant to improve digital literacy and broadband access for migrant farmworkers.
May 31, 2023
  • Benjamin Abel

LITERACY GRANT

A librarian-led research project funded by a nearly $750,000 Institute of Museum and Library Services National Leadership Grant will assess migrant and seasonal farmworkers’ literacy and access to broadband service...

Wanda Lancaster, concentration director of East Carolina University's Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner program, lectures nursing students. The PMHNP program trains health care professionals to evaluate and treat mental health conditions.
May 30, 2023
  • Benjamin Abel

PSYCHIATRIC CARE

Recent reports suggest that the nation’s mental health is suffering even greater post-pandemic, with adults reporting record rates of depression and anxiety, and young adults reporting significant behavioral health disorders....

Nearly 100 fifth grade students from two North Carolina elementary schools visited East Carolina University this spring to tour the campus and learn about the educational, recreational and career possibilities available to them as future Pirates.
May 25, 2023
  • Lacey L. Gray

EXPANDING YOUNG MINDS

This spring, East Carolina University’s Office of Undergraduate Admissions and the Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences partnered to bring nearly 100 elementary students to tour the ECU campus...

Rukiya Van Dross is developing a first-of-its-kind immunotherapy for cancer and is the founder of Claradele Pharmaceuticals. Research like hers could benefit from the work of NCInnovation, a nonprofit created to foster innovation in North Carolina.
May 23, 2023
  • Jules Norwood

INNOVATION HUB

Thanks in part to university research, North Carolina has great potential for research and development but trails other states in commercializing that research, according to NCInnovation, a nonprofit formed to...

A student on one of East Carolina University Assistant Professor Rebecca Asch’s field trips holds a menhaden, a small pelagic fish located along the North Carolina coast.
May 22, 2023
  • Lacey L. Gray

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES

East Carolina University faculty and students in the Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences are researching range-expanding marine species and changing fish populations, as well as the effects climate...

East Carolina University nutrition science students prepare and serve an Italian lunch in the Rivers Building.
May 18, 2023
  • Benjamin Abel

HANDS-ON NUTRITION

Food makes life richer, more enjoyable. It solidifies culture and fosters unshakable foundations for families. Food assists with super-human endurance and strength or can destroy a body’s ability to sustain...

Robert and Amy Brinkley, left, and Pat and Lynn Lane, right, were honored by Chancellor Philip Rogers for their historic commitment to ECU.
May 17, 2023
  • Kristen Martin
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

HISTORIC COMMITMENT

In a milestone moment for East Carolina University, Chancellor Philip Rogers on Wednesday announced a combined $30 million commitment to the institution from Robert Gentry Brinkley ’78 and Amy Woods...

East Carolina University occupational therapy professor Anne Dickerson and film associate professor Erick Green partnered to create a film to educate emergency workers about elderly driver safety.
May 16, 2023
  • Benjamin Abel

SERVICE FILM

What happens when a left-brained clinical researcher, a right-brained film production professor and a crew of East Carolina University students and alumni work together on the issue of older driver...

This spring, East Carolina University students saw the Pulitzer Prize-winning play “Fat Ham” on Broadway.
May 15, 2023
  • Lacey L. Gray

REVENGE IS MAD HARD

This spring, East Carolina University students, along with three faculty members from the Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences Department of English, had the unique experience of traveling to...

Current and past Brody Scholars gathered to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Brody Scholars program.
May 12, 2023
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

LEGACY OF SCHOLARS

If not for the Brody Scholars Program Brandon Garcia, Grant O’Brien and Kayla Mayes may have become a leading magician, math teacher and real estate developer. Instead, all three graduated...