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Tessa Gibson works on a canoe with Gerald Weckesser in East Carolina University's first boat building class in summer 2016. Weckesser is building relationships that bring the boat building techniques to classrooms across the world.
Mar 10, 2023
  • Crystal Baity

BUILDING BOATS AND BRIDGES

A boat building course at East Carolina University has become the perfect vessel to build bridges with other universities and institutions at home and abroad. Since 2016, School of Art...

Mar 09, 2023
  • Hannah Eccleston

Student: Connor Butzine

East Carolina University College of Business student Connor Butzine is looking to the future as he prepares for graduation in May. He has spent time reflecting on his choice to...

East Carolina University political science major and Honors College sophomore Tierney Reardon is expanding her global understanding while studying and interning this semester in London.
Mar 06, 2023
  • Lacey L. Gray

THE LONDON EXPERIENCE

East Carolina University sophomore Tierney Reardon is expanding her global understanding through a semester-long study abroad experience in London. Reardon, who is an EC Scholar in the Honors College, is...

The East Carolina University College of Nursing’s Courtney Caiola, Becky Bagley, and John Smoot played a pivotal role in helping a nursing student care for her newly adopted child.
Mar 02, 2023
  • Benjamin Abel

DONATION OF LOVE

Sometimes it takes a village. And a caravan. And complete strangers. Julianne Szymanski has been a labor and delivery nurse for a decade and a half. She has had a...

East Carolina University students volunteered at a nonprofit organization dedicated to ending human trafficking during Mystery Service on Saturday.
Mar 02, 2023
  • Crystal Baity

SERVING OTHERS

The intrigue of not knowing where you’re going but making a difference when you get there is enticing East Carolina University students to volunteer for Mystery Service Saturdays. Spots fill...

Kuan-Hung Chen, an IT consultant with the East Carolina University College of Nursing, works on graphic elements of a virtual reality game used to teach students.
Mar 01, 2023
  • Benjamin Abel

GAMING HEALTH EDUCATION

Sometimes gaming doesn’t mean playing a game. In June of 2022, Josh Peery, a game designer and instructional technology consultant for East Carolina University’s College of Nursing, was asked to speak...

ECU photography by Cliff Hollis
Mar 01, 2023
  • Michael Rudd

Student: Elena Uzun

Why not? That’s the can-do attitude that Elena Uzun took on when she asked herself if she wanted to pursue an MBA degree from East Carolina University and the Thomas...

Mar 01, 2023
  • Michael Rudd

Faculty: Linda Quick

Linda Quick first met Cal Christian, chair of the College of Business' Department of Accounting, during her senior of high school in 2001 when he interviewed her for the Honors...

The East Carolina University School of Theatre and Dance and Loessin Playhouse invite Pirates to immerse themselves in the uniquely American form of popular music and dance known as swing with their latest production
Feb 23, 2023
  • Hannah Eccleston

ECU PRESENTS ‘SWING!’

East Carolina University's School of Theatre and Dance and Loessin Playhouse invite Pirates to immerse themselves in the uniquely American form of popular music and dance known as swing. Requiring...

Heather Panczykowski and her occupational therapy student team organized and ran a study of horse therapy options for neurodivergent children and young adults.
Feb 23, 2023
  • Benjamin Abel

EQUINE CONNECTIONS

The history of humans and horses has been intertwined for more than 5,000 years. Mongol horsemen spread an empire across Asia’s great seas of grass. Conquistadors reintroduced horses into North...