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Apr 01, 2020
  • Grady Dillon

Student: McKenzie Swindle

Weather has always fascinated East Carolina University student Mckenzie Swindle. Now, she is paving her way to a future career in meteorology. “Before moving to North Carolina, I lived in...

Apr 01, 2020
  • Ken Buday

HERE TO HELP

8 TIPS FOR SOON-TO-BE JOB HUNTERS Lee Brown, the director of career services for the College of Business, offers eight tips for soon-to-be job hunters. Now is the time to...

Photography by Cliff Hollis
Apr 01, 2020
  • Ken Buday

Faculty: Dr. Rebecca Snyder

Dr. Rebecca Snyder may be relatively new to Pirate Nation, but East Carolina University’s mission to support the rural region in which it is located made coming to ECU an...

Mar 31, 2020
  • ECU News Services

LEANING IN

As East Carolina University students switched from in-person to distance education-only classes last week, hundreds of faculty and staff worked from home. Face-to-face lectures or meetings were replaced by virtual...

Mar 26, 2020
  • Matt Smith

ON THE ROAD AGAIN

For the third consecutive year, East Carolina University’s Purple and Gold Bus Tour rolled through eastern North Carolina in early March, traveling more than 380 miles to 13 locations across...

Mar 25, 2020
  • Ken Buday

PIRATES ABOARD

With the cancellation of the in-person Pirates Aboard Admitted Student Days, future students and their parents now have an online resource to provide information about East Carolina University and the...

Mar 20, 2020
  • Ken Buday
  • Spaine Stephens

MATCH DAY 2020

Fourth-year Brody School of Medicine students learned Friday where they will spend the next several years completing residency training. The highly anticipated Match Day ceremony is normally held in the...

Mar 20, 2020
  • Spaine Stephens

MATCH DAY AND A BIRTHDAY

It’s fitting that Match Day is also the fourth birthday of Lynette Staplefoote-Boynton’s son, Josiah. For them, her journey through medical school has truly been a family affair. Staplefoote-Boynton; her...

Mar 20, 2020
  • Ken Buday

PERFECT MATCH

Gabe Gaweda was willing to walk through lava for Maggie Jordan. It wasn’t real lava, just placemats on a gymnasium floor to indicate lava. Still, that game four years ago...

Mar 20, 2020
  • Jules Norwood

CHANGING GEARS

Brandon Yates went into Match Day at East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine hoping to match with a residency in obstetrics and gynecology. But his path to that specialty...