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Feb 07, 2024
  • Crystal Baity

Top Online Programs

East Carolina University’s online master’s degree programs in business, criminal justice, education and nursing are among the best in the nation in a new ranking by U.S. News & World...

Feb 07, 2024
  • Ronnie Woodward

Student presents migraine research at Harvard University

The itinerary for East Carolina University student Kendall Nelson was finalized a few days before she traveled to present at the National Collegiate Research Conference in late January. It was...

Fourteen ECU faculty and staff are Treasured Pirates. (Photo by Rhett Butler)
Feb 06, 2024
  • Crystal Baity

STEADFAST, SELFLESS DEDICATION

Hardee recognized for 55 years of service Lou Anna Hardee has worked for every East Carolina University chancellor since Leo Jenkins and seven deans in the College of Education, where...

Feb 02, 2024
  • Benjamin Abel

New blood bank technology prepares students for modern laboratory work

ECU’s clinical laboratory science students — who after graduation run the nation’s medical labs in hospitals, for public health offices and in the pharmaceutical and biotech industry — got a...

Jan 25, 2024
  • Ronnie Woodward

ECU forum focuses on strategies, impact with state agencies

The sharing of information, ideas and strategies permeated the room in the East Carolina University Main Campus Student Center on Friday for a unique opportunity with the North Carolina Office...

Jan 25, 2024
  • Spaine Stephens

ECU dental school’s second-year students receive white coats

Members of the East Carolina University School of Dental Medicine’s Class of 2026 received their white coats during a Jan. 19 ceremony in Hendrix Theatre. More than 500 students, faculty,...

Jan 25, 2024
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

Zakaib turned to medicine during pandemic

Mohsen Zakaib’s path to service through medicine became clear during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Service during the pandemic forced him into new opportunities he says he wouldn’t have...

Jan 25, 2024
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

Ulffers aims to serve people of eastern North Carolina

Abby Ulffers ’23 is a Brinkley-Lane Scholar and earned a Bachelor of Science in public health. She aims to “grow into a physician who has a platform to serve the...

Jan 25, 2024
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

Castañeda fulfilling a long-time dream with medical school

The idea of becoming a physician was planted in Eduardo Castañeda at 7 years old through interaction with his mother’s cardiologist. He took it upon himself to show Castañeda around...

Jan 25, 2024
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

Volunteering, children’s hospital experience led Smallwood to medical school

Baseball brought Christian Smallwood from Melbourne, Florida, to ECU. Surgery to correct season-ending injuries brought a career in medicine into focus and he is on course to become a physician...