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ECU grad profile Dymon Blango poses on the mall.
May 02, 2022
  • Kristen Martin

BLENDING PASSIONS

STATISTICS Name: Dymon Blango College: Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences Major: Double major in biology and chemistry, minor in forensic science Age: 21 Classification/Year: Senior Hometown: Greenville, N.C....

ECU grad profile Landon Blacknall poses on the mall.
May 02, 2022
  • Lacey L. Gray

FUTURE STATE REPRESENTATIVE

STATISTICS Name: Landon Kyle Blacknall College: Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences Major: Political science, minor in communication Age: 22 Classification/Year: Senior Hometown: Charlotte, North Carolina Hobbies/interests: Politics, sports...

May 02, 2022
  • Ken Buday

HOOKED

STATISTICS Name: Marco Agostini College: Engineering and Technology Major: Computer science, minor in coastal and marine studies Age: 22 Classification/Year: Senior Hometown: Wilson, North Carolina Hobbies/interests: Blacksmithing, woodworking and tennis...

The ECU Board of Trustees met in the Main Campus Student Center on Thursday and Friday.
Apr 29, 2022
  • ECU News Services

NEW DEAN FOR NURSING

During the regular meeting of the East Carolina University Board of Trustees on Friday, Dr. Bimbola Akintade was named dean of the College of Nursing effective July 1. He will...

Luciano DeRose, a junior bioprocess engineering major from Titusville, Pennsylvania, works in a lab in the new Life Sciences and Biotechnology Building.
Apr 28, 2022
  • Ken Buday

GLOWING REVIEW

East Carolina University’s Life Sciences and Biotechnology Building opened in November, and bioprocess engineering students are already glowing about the new space. “It’s really, really cool,” said Luciano DeRose, a...

ECU students celebrate at graduation.
Apr 27, 2022
  • Jules Norwood

PIRATE PRIDE

East Carolina University will hold its commencement ceremony for spring and summer graduates in Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium on Friday, May 6, at 9 a.m. More than 4,600 graduates will be recognized...

ECU student Adam Berman poses in an art building.
Apr 26, 2022
  • Crystal Baity

Student: Adam Berman

East Carolina University student Adam Berman has spent the last three years working on his master’s degree while teaching printmaking in the School of Art and Design, where 18th and...

ECU Chancellor Philip Rogers speaks during the University Teaching Awards ceremony in Harvey Hall.
Apr 25, 2022
  • Ken Buday

TEACHING EXCELLENCE

East Carolina University celebrated its faculty during the 2022 University Teaching Awards ceremony Thursday night at the Murphy Center. Chancellor Philip Rogers presided over the night’s festivities, crediting all ECU...

Chad Carwein, university sustainability manager, supervises while Julia Florack works with a bee hive frame.
Apr 22, 2022
  • Jules Norwood

DIG IT

East Carolina University and its student environmental organizations celebrated Earth Day with a full week of events, kicking off with a honey extraction demonstration and wrapping up with a farm...

Dr. Meghan Berger conducts a brainspotting exercise with a mock patient in the Neurocognition Science Laboratory in the Rivers Building.
Apr 21, 2022
  • Kristen Martin

MIND-BODY CONNECTION

As counselor education student Debby Harris filled out career assessments and completed a brainspotting session, sensors on her head measured blood flow in her brain and neural activity. “Brainspotting is...