News Archives

Jun 21, 2021
  • Matt Smith

BACK-TO-BACK

For the second year in a row, the University of North Carolina System announced that a team led by an East Carolina University researcher was awarded a grant through the...

Jun 17, 2021
  • Matt Smith

EXEMPLARY SERVICE

The North Carolina Agromedicine Institute has been nationally recognized for an exemplary project by the Engagement Scholarship Consortium. An inter-institutional partnership among East Carolina University, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical...

Jun 16, 2021
  • Kristen Martin

EDIBLE LANDSCAPE

A group of East Carolina University Honors College students sought to improve sustainability by creating an orchard on campus. “Our mission is to serve college campuses by giving students the...

Jun 15, 2021
  • Crystal Baity

EARLY DETECTION

East Carolina University’s successful wastewater testing program for COVID-19 has paused for the summer but will start again when students return to campus in August. “The wastewater program was an...

Jun 15, 2021
  • Doug Boyd

STICKER SHOCK

Have you seen the internet meme of a dressed-to-the-nines couple having dinner in a lumber yard? It reads, “Take me somewhere expensive!” Expensive is the word that best describes lumber...

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...