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Nov 10, 2021
  • Erin Ward

RECOGNIZING MILITARY SERVICE

The Distinguished Military Service Society honored service to the nation and service to East Carolina University at a ceremony and dinner held at the Greenville Hilton on Friday. In partnership...

Undergraduate students Marina Boatman and Lauren Johansen position tubes and air filters to collect air samples that will be tested for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
Nov 09, 2021
  • Natalie Sayewich

AIRBORNE DETECTION

Researchers at East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine have found a new way to detect the virus that causes COVID-19 by testing the air passing through building ventilation systems....

ECU Chancellor Philip Rogers, left, and Col. Mikel Huber
Nov 08, 2021
  • Ken Buday

CONNECTION TO THE CORPS

East Carolina University and Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point have joined forces to help with educational opportunities for military and Department of Defense personnel on the base. Chancellor Philip...

Fourth-year ECU School of Dental Medicine student Victoria Hardy prepares to perform a root canal on her mother, Barbara Hardy. The School of Dental Medicine is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. (Photos by Rhett Butler)
Nov 04, 2021
  • Spaine Stephens

DECADE OF DENTISTRY

Several years ago, Victoria Hardy stared out the window of an East Carolina University Transit bus at Ledyard E. Ross Hall, the new home of the School of Dental Medicine...

Nov 03, 2021
  • Natalie Sayewich

STARTING STEM EARLY

If you happened to see Dr. Virginia C. Stage on the ground, digging through the dirt to find roly-polies outside ECU’s Health Sciences Building this past summer, you might not...

Nov 02, 2021
  • Lacey L. Gray

FORENSIC LESSONS IN 3D

Criminal justice students at East Carolina University are the first students in North Carolina, and the surrounding states of Virginia and Florida, to use a 3D laser scanner — the...

Oct 29, 2021
  • Natalie Sayewich

HEALTH CARE, EN ESPAÑOL

As students in the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University learn to earn their patients’ trust and look for ways to better serve the underserved, many are honing...

Oct 28, 2021
  • Jules Norwood

INTERN ENERGY

“It was like a mini study abroad,” said East Carolina University sophomore Cora McQuaid, who spent the spring semester at ECU’s Outer Banks Campus as part of the Semester Experience...

Dr. Tom Irons, East Carolina University's associate vice chancellor for health sciences, was awarded the 2021 Jim Bernstein Community Health Career Achievement Award on Oct. 22 by the Foundation for Health Leadership & Innovation (Photo by Cliff Hollis)
Oct 26, 2021
  • Spaine Stephens

CAREER KUDOS

Wherever Dr. Thomas G. “Tom” Irons goes, his reputation as a tireless advocate for health care access for all North Carolinians precedes him. Irons is an East Carolina University fixture,...

Oct 25, 2021
  • Crystal Baity

Student: Blake Rose

Blake Rose can literally fill notebooks with lyrics, poems and stories. His love for words goes back to high school, when he started writing lyrics for songs he played on...