News Archives

Jun 14, 2021
  • Crystal Baity

Student: Kateryna Kosolapova

Creating the “People of Greenville” podcast helped fulfill Kateryna “Kate” Kosolapova’s dream of telling other people’s stories. She grew up watching TV hosts and news anchors and pored through magazines...

Jun 11, 2021
  • Natalie Sayewich

MAPPING COVID-19

When limited resources prevent everyone from having immediate access to COVID-19 vaccines, how do you determine who needs them most urgently? Where are they located? How can you get the...

Jun 10, 2021
  • Jules Norwood

RETURN TO TUSCANY

A fortunate few East Carolina University students will spend the fall semester in Certaldo Alto, Italy, through the ECU Tuscany study abroad program, which received the green light this week...

Jun 07, 2021
  • Lacey L. Gray

RECLAIMING HISTORY

East Carolina University students in the Department of Anthropology are back in the field this summer helping recover and catalog abandoned cemeteries across eastern North Carolina. Under the direction of...

Jun 04, 2021
  • Ken Buday

ENGINEERING PIRATES

Oscar Maldonado grew up watching and later working on the big rigs in his father’s trucking company in Clinton. His passion for trucks and cars grew — he’s the proud...

Jun 03, 2021
  • Crystal Baity

FLYING FISH

Scott Eagle’s “School of Flying Fish” mural has made the jump from Greenville all the way to Beijing in a showcase of American street art at the U.S. Embassy. Eagle,...

Jun 02, 2021
  • Matt Smith

PROMISING PARTNERSHIPS

Entering its third year, RISE29, East Carolina University’s student entrepreneurship program, is finding its footing. Tasked with creating a new generation of entrepreneurial leaders in the university’s 29-county service area,...

May 28, 2021
  • Ken Buday

Faculty: Dr. Denise Donica

Dr. Denise Donica doesn’t live in the negative. Positive outcomes fuel Donica, an associate professor and chair of the East Carolina University Department of Occupational Therapy. “The goal of occupational...

May 28, 2021
  • Crystal Baity

BATTLING BIAS

This year’s Pirate Read, “The Person You Mean to Be: How Good People Fight Bias” by Dolly Chugh will offer East Carolina University students tips to reduce the effects of...

May 27, 2021
  • Lacey L. Gray

ENCOURAGING ARCHAEOLOGICAL DIVERSITY

Preserving history and heritage is a prominent goal in the field of archaeology, and East Carolina University’s Maritime Studies Program helps students gain the knowledge to meet that goal through...