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East Carolina University Brody School of Medicine student Merdi Lutete, left, celebrates with her father, Masiala Ngoma, during Match Day 2023. Fourth year medical students from across the country learned where they will spend the next part of their careers in residency.
Mar 17, 2023
  • Benjamin Abel
  • Kelly Rogers Dilda
  • Spaine Stephens

MATCH DAY 2023

In a ceremony laced with excitement, anticipation and tradition, fourth-year medical students in the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University learned where they will spend the next three...

Mar 17, 2023
  • Kim Tilghman

REDE bus tour encourages collaboration for transformation

While many stayed home or traveled to warmer climates during spring break, a group of East Carolina University faculty, students and staff embarked on a tour throughout eastern North Carolina’s...

East Carolina University students helped register voters in partnership with the League for Women Voters and worked with World Relief and the Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina Main Distribution Center in Raleigh during an alternative break experience. The trip was organized by Center for Leadership and Civic Engagement Senior Assistant Director Alex Dennis. (Contributed photos)
Mar 15, 2023
  • Crystal Baity

ALTERNATIVE BREAK EXPERIENCE

Sarah Elliott, Claire Mack and Tete Narh-Mensah spent last week at the coast, not an uncommon destination for East Carolina University students on spring break. The difference was their objective...

Tessa Gibson works on a canoe with Gerald Weckesser in East Carolina University's first boat building class in summer 2016. Weckesser is building relationships that bring the boat building techniques to classrooms across the world.
Mar 10, 2023
  • Crystal Baity

BUILDING BOATS AND BRIDGES

A boat building course at East Carolina University has become the perfect vessel to build bridges with other universities and institutions at home and abroad. Since 2016, School of Art...

Mar 09, 2023
  • Hannah Eccleston

Student: Connor Butzine

East Carolina University College of Business student Connor Butzine is looking to the future as he prepares for graduation in May. He has spent time reflecting on his choice to...

Mar 07, 2023
  • Spaine Stephens

ECU hosts annual gathering of reproductive biology experts

East Carolina University hosted nearly 100 participants from a variety of institutions Feb. 25 for the 31st annual Triangle Consortium for Reproductive Biology (TCRB) meeting. The event was chaired by...

East Carolina University political science major and Honors College sophomore Tierney Reardon is expanding her global understanding while studying and interning this semester in London.
Mar 06, 2023
  • Lacey L. Gray

THE LONDON EXPERIENCE

East Carolina University sophomore Tierney Reardon is expanding her global understanding through a semester-long study abroad experience in London. Reardon, who is an EC Scholar in the Honors College, is...

The East Carolina University College of Nursing’s Courtney Caiola, Becky Bagley, and John Smoot played a pivotal role in helping a nursing student care for her newly adopted child.
Mar 02, 2023
  • Benjamin Abel

DONATION OF LOVE

Sometimes it takes a village. And a caravan. And complete strangers. Julianne Szymanski has been a labor and delivery nurse for a decade and a half. She has had a...

East Carolina University students volunteered at a nonprofit organization dedicated to ending human trafficking during Mystery Service on Saturday.
Mar 02, 2023
  • Crystal Baity

SERVING OTHERS

The intrigue of not knowing where you’re going but making a difference when you get there is enticing East Carolina University students to volunteer for Mystery Service Saturdays. Spots fill...

Kuan-Hung Chen, an IT consultant with the East Carolina University College of Nursing, works on graphic elements of a virtual reality game used to teach students.
Mar 01, 2023
  • Benjamin Abel

GAMING HEALTH EDUCATION

Sometimes gaming doesn’t mean playing a game. In June of 2022, Josh Peery, a game designer and instructional technology consultant for East Carolina University’s College of Nursing, was asked to speak...