Students Archives

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...

Mar 17, 2020
  • Crystal Baity

TOP PROGRAMS

East Carolina University graduate programs in allied health sciences, education, fine arts, medicine, nursing and public administration have been recognized among the nation’s best by U.S. News & World Report....

Mar 13, 2020
  • Crystal Baity

MAKING A DIFFERENCE

Gusty winds blew across the Making Pitt Fit Community Garden off County Home Road in Greenville as East Carolina University students Tasha Spencer and Garrett Hope prepped planting beds for...

Mar 11, 2020
  • ECU News Services

ECU Alumni Association names 2020 Robert H. Wright Alumni Leadership Award recipients

The East Carolina University Alumni Association selected five student recipients of the 2020 Robert H. Wright Alumni Leadership Award. The award recognizes students’ academic achievement as well as commitment to...

Mar 10, 2020
  • Crystal Baity

SUPPORTING STUDENT VETERANS

COURAGE AND SACRIFICE Memorial Walk brick paver dedication ceremony remembers heroes who served Donald Ray Taylor joined the Navy in 1952, bound for basic training in San Diego before being...

Mar 10, 2020
  • ECU News Services

Students seek to improve sustainability through composting

Improving Greenville’s environmental sustainability through compost is the goal for several East Carolina University students. Olivia Sessoms, Loring Penna-Welch, Jacob Marshall and Hayden Murphy are four Honors College students who...

Mar 09, 2020
  • Janiya Winchester

Student: Ongeri Ayako

Ongeri Joseph Ayako, second-year medical student at East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine, believes in balance in his approach to becoming a doctor and his family life. Ayako, originally...