BARRIERS TO PARTICIPATION
Sports Illustrated has called Greenville a “Sportstown USA,” and while opportunities abound for youth and adults to play and learn, those doors aren’t equally open to everyone. That’s what East...
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CORONAVIRUS EXPLAINED
ECU Experts ECU’s Division of Health Sciences has experts available to answer questions related to Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and other infectious diseases. Infectious diseases: Paul Cook, MD, chief of Brody’s...
JUST DANCE
East Carolina University’s Mary Ellen Hunter founded Piratethon, a student-led dance marathon fundraiser, to help children just like her. Hunter, a senior from Raleigh, had a heart defect and was...
TOPPING OUT
Construction of the East Carolina University Life Sciences and Biotechnology Building reached a milestone with a “topping out” ceremony Wednesday at the site on the corner of 10th and Evans...
Faculty: Dr. Oneil Harris
Dr. Oneil Harris, associate professor in the Department of Finance at East Carolina University, had one word to describe his youth growing up in Kingston, Jamaica — “interesting.” However, that...
SERVICE THROUGH RESEARCH
East Carolina University researchers will be recognized Monday, March 2, at the university’s fourth annual Research and Scholarship Awards. The awards honor ECU faculty with the Lifetime Research & Creative...
ADVOCATING FOR LITERACY
Many educators can point to certain moments in their life when they knew they were destined to join their field. There were plenty of those moments for East Carolina University...
WRITING HER STORY
On a Tuesday afternoon in a darkened conference room in East Carolina University’s Mamie Jenkins Building, nearly a dozen students gather for author Liza Wieland’s creative writing workshop. One of...
SOUNDS OF RESEARCH
The click-clack-tap of a keyboard’s plastic keys fills the room in East Carolina University’s Auditory Prosthesis Lab. While the average person takes a keyboard’s sound for granted, Ning Zhou, an...
FIGHTING OPIOID OVERDOSES
Researchers at East Carolina University found 3 out of 5 North Carolina retail pharmacies have naloxone in stock for opioid overdoses as part of a statewide standing order. But some...