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A student pauses in mask and scrub cap as another provider continues working on a patient in a dental suite.
Feb 26, 2025
  • Spaine Stephens

Dental school’s annual Sonríe Clinic brings smiles to Hispanic community

Language barriers highlight the obstacles in the way of human connections — but a smile is universal. East Carolina University School of Dental Medicine students, residents, faculty, staff, undergraduate student...

Feb 25, 2025
  • Lacey L. Gray

ECU biologist contributes to worldwide climate-resilient conservation efforts

East Carolina University’s Dr. Rachel Gittman, an associate professor in the Department of Biology, along with several student researchers in her lab, have been working with other experts and federal agencies...

Feb 25, 2025
  • Lacey L. Gray

ECU students, staff assist western North Carolina community with historical homes survey

On Jan. 25-26, East Carolina University students and staff conducted a historic house survey in western North Carolina in the wake of significant property damage during Hurricane Helene. The team...

a group of young performers in French-inspired wardrobes sing on a large stage.
Feb 21, 2025
  • Alondra Martinez

ECU to premiere ‘Wild Heart,’ a modern take on Joan of Arc’s story

Behind the Scenes: Promotional Artwork ECU Creative Services designer Matt Wyrick created the promotional artwork for “Wild Heart.” His art has been adopted for use nationwide. When people hear the...

Feb 19, 2025
  • Jessica VanderKolk

ECU composer Taggart recalls unique filmed opera during height of COVID-19 pandemic

Longtime East Carolina University faculty member Mark Taggart had already been baking bread for years when the COVID-19 pandemic struck in 2020, but he had not composed an opera specifically...

Feb 18, 2025
  • Benjamin Abel

Students lead café kitchen at ECU, learning nutrition and food service skills

In early February, students in chef’s coats and a motley array of East Carolina University baseball hats fired up the grills, sharpened the knives and turned on the cash registers...

Four people sit in front of a window and look at computers held in their laps.
Feb 12, 2025
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

Scholarship initiative boosts recruitment of high-achieving students

East Carolina University is better prepared to provide scholarships to more high-achieving students thanks to donor support of the institution’s new Chancellor’s Scholars Initiative. Through this new initiative, more than...

Three women stand in front of a white screen in East Carolina University’s Main Campus Student Center. They each hold a different trophy representing their first, second and third place awards in the Three-Minute Thesis competition.
Feb 10, 2025
  • Lacey L. Gray

Shifting the attitude of reporting sports-related head injuries

Xanthia Saganis, an East Carolina University doctoral student in the Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences health psychology program pursuing a concentration in clinical health, is studying athletic injuries....

A man in a gray shirt and black apron holds a coffee order.
Feb 06, 2025
  • Benjamin Abel

Awaken Coffee expands to ECU: Empowering the differently abled, one cup at a time

As of Feb. 3, the East Carolina University Health Sciences Campus is fully caffeinated again. Awaken Coffee, which offers premium coffee brewed and served by members of the greater Greenville...

Feb 03, 2025
  • Steven Grandy

Polar Bear Plunge delivers splashes and smiles

For East Carolina University junior Kaliyah Crowder, the wait was more than worth it. The hospitality management major from Raleigh took her place at the front of the line at...