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Student volunteers watch as a HABIT study participant practices buttoning a shirt during the study. The program aims to help children with cerebral palsy enhance bimanual skill learning and brain function.
Jan 12, 2023
  • Benjamin Abel

ANYTHING BUT A GAME

“I said HUT! I said HUT!” Three young boys roughhousing an improvised game of football in an East Carolina University conference room on a cool, overcast late fall day wasn’t...

Paxton Dettor, left, works with Sue Wright during a physical therapy clinic led by the College of Allied Health Sciences focused on patients with Parkinson's disease.
Jan 09, 2023
  • Benjamin Abel

PARKINSON’S PILOT

One of the ironies of Parkinson’s disease, which is marked by an increasing inability for sufferers to control their movements, is that movement helps to stave off the disease’s progression....

East Carolina University alumni Sophia and Peter Ku have established an endowment to honor the kindness shown to them at ECU.
Jan 05, 2023
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

UNEXPECTED KINDNESS

Peter Ku ’68 describes his life as a series of miracles that brought him to the United States from Taiwan and eventually to East Carolina College where he found the...

Teandrea Wilkins is working hard to achieve his goals while also staying involved with his community.
Jan 04, 2023
  • Hannah Eccleston

Student: Teandrea Wilkins

Teandrea Wilkins is reflecting on his academic journey as he enters his final semester at East Carolina University. “It has been a long journey, considering everything from kindergarten until now,”...

Susannah Berry is committed to children and to educating those who teach them through her many roles in ECU’s College of Health and Human Performance.
Jan 03, 2023
  • Ken Buday

Faculty: Susannah Berry

One bragged to her about having new pink shoes. Another presented her with a tin full of muffins — muffins made of leaves picked up from the playground, but when...

Dec 19, 2022
  • Matt Smith

ECU 2022: YEAR IN REVIEW

If one word sums up Pirate Nation in 2022, it's "renewal." Pirates returned to campus with a rejuvenated sense of hope in response to COVID-19. Chancellor Philip Rogers was officially...

Dec 19, 2022
  • ECU News Services

VICE CHANCELLOR NAMED

After a competitive national search, a North Carolina native with more than 22 years of experience working with university students has been named Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs at East...

Almost 2,000 graduates were recognized at East Carolina University’s fall 2022 commencement ceremony in Minges Coliseum.
Dec 16, 2022
  • ECU News Services

AUDACITY TO ASPIRE

Nearly 2,000 East Carolina University graduates turned their tassels in Minges Coliseum on Friday, celebrating fall commencement 2022 along with their families, friends, and university faculty, staff and administrators. Chancellor...

Sy Saeed, executive director of NC-STeP, talks to a student from Elizabeth City from his office in Brody. The program was awarded the 2022 Innovation Award for technology from North Carolina’s i2i Center for Integrative Health.
Dec 13, 2022
  • Spaine Stephens

INNOVATIVE HEALTH CARE

The East Carolina University-led North Carolina Statewide Telepsychiatry Program (NC-SteP) has won the 2022 Innovation Award for technology from North Carolina’s i2i Center for Integrative Health. The award celebrates innovation...

ECU graduate with cap and gown standing in front of the cupola.
Dec 11, 2022
  • ECU News Services

GRAD PROFILES FALL 22: PIRATE RESILIENCY

Resiliency is a common theme for many students that make up Pirate Nation. Hard work and dedication are in their DNA and you’ll often find Pirates lending a helping hand...