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Sep 30, 2020
  • Jamie Smith

PAST PRESIDENTIAL VISITS AT ECU

Sixty years ago, a young senator running as the Democratic nominee for president put East Carolina University (then East Carolina College) on the map for future presidential hopefuls. Learn more...

Sep 29, 2020
  • Kelly Rogers Dilda

DRIVE-THRU FLU SHOTS

ECU Physicians, the physician practice of the Brody School of Medicine, is offering guidance and safeguarding during this year’s flu season. The practice is offering a drive-thru flu vaccine clinic...

Sep 28, 2020
  • Crystal Baity

Student: Yakira Muhammad

Yakira Muhammad planned a career in medicine when she enrolled at East Carolina University, but a longtime interest in writing steered her in a new direction. A double major in...

Sep 28, 2020
  • Erin Ward

ECU POLL

East Carolina University started a polling center three years ago with the goal of conducting accurate election polling that could garner national attention. With the 2020 election season underway, those...

Sep 24, 2020
  • Spaine Stephens

MENTAL HEALTH EXPANSION

An East Carolina University team in the Brody School of Medicine’s Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine has received a $1.2 million federal grant to expand telehealth-based mental health services...

Sep 23, 2020
  • Erin Ward

CHILD CARE DURING COVID

When Governor Roy Cooper issued an executive order to shut down K-12 schools in North Carolina in March, Children’s World, a day care center with multiple locations in Greenville, stayed...

Sep 22, 2020
  • Jules Norwood

PIRATES VOTE

For Purificación Martínez, associate professor of Hispanic studies and chair of the faculty at East Carolina University, voting is personal. As someone who lived under the regime of dictator Francisco...

Sep 21, 2020
  • Matt Smith

NAVAL PARTNERSHIP

East Carolina University and 18 of its Pirate Promise community college collaborators have been selected as partners for the new United States Naval Community College (USNCC) effort. The joint effort...

Sep 21, 2020
  • Natalie Sayewich

CENTER OF EXCELLENCE

As the College of Nursing celebrates 60 years of educating nurses to serve the state of North Carolina and beyond, the National League for Nursing (NLN) has designated it a...

Sep 18, 2020
  • Spaine Stephens

EXPERIENCED PROFESSIONALS

During any ordinary year, the ECU School of Dental Medicine’s residency programs provide a rigorous learning experience for dental school graduates. This year, those residents earned invaluable experience serving during...