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Jan 15, 2020
  • Grady Dillon

Student: Delaney Arthur

East Carolina student Delaney Arthur has a passion for drawing and designing clothes. Now, she hopes to one day start her own design company. Arthur, a junior from Lynchburg, Virginia,...

Jan 14, 2020
  • Crystal Baity

NATIONALLY RANKED

Online graduate programs at East Carolina University have been recognized among the nation’s best in a new ranking by U.S. News & World Report. ECU’s master’s programs in business, criminal...

Amber Arnold, assistant director of student success in the Pirate Academic Success Center, works with ECU student Nolan McDonald on an assignment. Photo by Rhett Butler.
Jan 13, 2020
  • Crystal Baity

MINDSET TO SUCCESS

Nolan McDonald speaks from experience: You can turn around a bad first semester. Now a junior, McDonald moved to East Carolina University from his hometown of Medford, New Jersey. Not...

ECU postdoctoral scholar Byron Aguilar is studying a compound that could help Alzheimer’s patients. (Photos by Doug Boyd)
Jan 09, 2020
  • Doug Boyd

CONQUERING DISEASE

Byron Aguilar is studying how a group of signaling proteins called Rho GTPases, which play a role in several common cellular functions, might affect the development of not only cancer...

Jan 08, 2020
  • Matt Smith

SIMPLY THE BEST

East Carolina University’s student entrepreneurship program, RISE29, was honored for its co-curricular innovation by the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE) at its annual conference Monday in...

Jan 07, 2020
  • Jules Norwood

YEAR ONE

It seems like yesterday that dignitaries from East Carolina University and across the state gathered to cut the ribbon opening the Main Campus Student Center on 10th Street, but it...

Dec 19, 2019
  • ECU News Services

2019: THE HIGHLIGHTS

There is much to be proud of in Pirate Nation. At East Carolina, we're leading and building. Our faculty and staff are discovering and inspiring. Our students and alumni are...

Dec 18, 2019
  • Erin Ward

ABOVE AND BEYOND

In his 35 years at East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine, Dr. James Peden has helped patients in clinics, supervised residents, served as an attending on medical services and...

Dec 18, 2019
  • Doug Boyd

ARTIST, TEACHER, PIRATE

Years ago, Sneads Ferry artist Sherry Thurston ’70 drew a pair of white rubber boots – the kind local shrimpers and anglers wear – called the drawing “Sneads Ferry Sneakers”...

Dec 17, 2019
  • Jules Norwood

X MARKS THE LAB

From the elevator, turn left down the hall and take 20 paces. Turn left again, and X marks the spot where Pirates are learning science in East Carolina University’s new,...