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Nov 22, 2019
  • ECU News Services

PLANNING FOR 2020

The East Carolina University Board of Trustees approved increases in student tuition and fees beginning in the fall 2020 semester and announced a search committee to find its next chancellor...

Nov 22, 2019
  • Ken Buday

KICKING BOT

Preparation paid off for a team of East Carolina University engineering and technology students with a first-place finish at a national robot competition. The members of the robotics team of...

Nov 21, 2019

Awards ceremony celebrates internationalization at ECU

East Carolina University’s Office of Global Affairs celebrated the accomplishments of faculty, staff and students during the annual International Awards Ceremony Tuesday, Nov. 19. Dr. Jon Rezek, assistant vice chancellor...

Nov 21, 2019
  • ECU News Services

HOLIDAY STRESS

While Andy Williams may have declared the holidays the “hap-happiest season of all,” for many of us, this time of year is synonymous with increased stress and anxiety. “The holidays...

Nov 21, 2019
  • Crystal Baity

GOING HOME AGAIN

The move to college isn’t all about academics. Most students are living on their own for the first time, deciding when to come and go without curfews or parental supervision....

Nov 21, 2019
  • Doug Boyd

THE SEASON FOR SAVING

Here’s bad news for college students: A Princeton University study says financial stress can make you less smart. “When human beings see scarcity, they go into survival mode,” said Dean...

Nov 20, 2019
  • Grady Dillon

‘INTO THE WOODS’

East Carolina University students will perform “Into the Woods,” a musical that intertwines several fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm and Charles Perrault, Nov. 20 through Nov. 24 in McGinnis...

Photography by Rhett Butler
Nov 15, 2019
  • Grady Dillon

Student: Darius Alexander

East Carolina University student Darius Alexander has aspirations to be a district attorney and to influence criminal justice reform. Alexander, a junior, is originally from New York but moved to...

Nov 14, 2019
  • Ken Buday

WASTE NOT

Holly Whitmyer is happy to be out of the classroom. She hasn’t graduated from East Carolina University yet, but she is among seven students tasked with a real-world project that...

Howell Binkley, ECU alumnus and Tony Award-winning lighting designer, speaks to theater and dance students in McGinnis Theatre on Nov. 8. (Photos by Rhett Butler)
Nov 13, 2019
  • Crystal Baity

ALL ABOUT EXPOSURE

Alumnus and award-winning lighting designer Howell Binkley returned to East Carolina University’s School of Theatre and Dance on Nov. 8 to visit with students and attend a scholarship fundraising gala....