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Mar 18, 2022
  • ECU News Services

A PERFECT MATCH

For the first time since 2019, one of East Carolina University’s most exciting annual events returned to an in-person format Friday when 82 fourth-year medical students learned where they will...

Mar 16, 2022
  • Crystal Baity

ADVANCING THE MISSION

Dr. Philip Rogers, who returned to East Carolina University a year ago, will be formally installed as ECU’s 12th chancellor on March 24. The ceremony — scheduled during Founders Week...

Mar 14, 2022
  • Crystal Baity
  • Kristen Martin

SERVING OTHERS

  EXPLORING CLIMATE CHANGE Ten Honors College students participated in a different type of spring break beach trip. As part of their honors seminar “From Barriers to Agency,” the students...

Mar 11, 2022
  • Spaine Stephens

BLUE CROSS FUNDING

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina is awarding $1.54 million to East Carolina University to provide telepsychiatry services over the next five years for students at Elizabeth City...

Mar 09, 2022
  • Jamie Smith

STORIES FROM UKRAINE

Trigger warning: This article mentions violence and sexual assault. Only the first names of the Ukrainian participants are used in this article. Each day, glimpses of the Russian invasion of...

Mar 08, 2022
  • Crystal Baity

GLASS WORKS

The glassblowing process is like a dance, and the key is learning the choreography, says East Carolina University instructor Mike Tracy. Five people from eastern North Carolina recently learned how...

Mar 07, 2022
  • Jules Norwood

SUNKEN HISTORY

It’s no secret that hundreds, if not thousands, of ships and their crews have met their fate off the coast of North Carolina; the area is known, after all, as...

Mar 04, 2022
  • Spaine Stephens

DENTAL WHITE COAT

Before choosing dental school, Brianna Horne carefully considered a variety of different careers in the health care field. When she slipped on her white coat Thursday evening during the East...

Mar 03, 2022
  • Spaine Stephens

SONRÍE MEANS SMILE

Elena Uzun sat transfixed by the developing conflict in Ukraine into the wee hours of Saturday, Feb. 26. But when dawn arrived, she headed to the East Carolina University School...

Mar 02, 2022
  • Rob Spahr

MEDITERRANEAN DIET

Evidence increasingly supports the idea that plant-based dietary patterns, such as the Mediterranean diet, may play an important role in the risk reduction of many chronic diseases. To better educate...