EDIBLE LANDSCAPE
A group of East Carolina University Honors College students sought to improve sustainability by creating an orchard on campus. “Our mission is to serve college campuses by giving students the...
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EARLY DETECTION
East Carolina University’s successful wastewater testing program for COVID-19 has paused for the summer but will start again when students return to campus in August. “The wastewater program was an...
Student: Kateryna Kosolapova
Creating the “People of Greenville” podcast helped fulfill Kateryna “Kate” Kosolapova’s dream of telling other people’s stories. She grew up watching TV hosts and news anchors and pored through magazines...
ECU students gain real-world experience interpreting data on seafloor earthquakes
Dr. Meg Blome, teaching assistant professor of geological sciences at East Carolina University, regularly teaches more than 50 students in an introductory oceanography course, but only half of those students...
MAPPING COVID-19
When limited resources prevent everyone from having immediate access to COVID-19 vaccines, how do you determine who needs them most urgently? Where are they located? How can you get the...
RETURN TO TUSCANY
A fortunate few East Carolina University students will spend the fall semester in Certaldo Alto, Italy, through the ECU Tuscany study abroad program, which received the green light this week...
YouTube star MrBeast donates tech to ECU students
One of the most-subscribed YouTube creators in the country stopped by East Carolina University to donate more than $27,000 in laptops, iPads and headsets. MrBeast, the famously generous YouTuber whose...
RECLAIMING HISTORY
East Carolina University students in the Department of Anthropology are back in the field this summer helping recover and catalog abandoned cemeteries across eastern North Carolina. Under the direction of...
ENGINEERING PIRATES
Oscar Maldonado grew up watching and later working on the big rigs in his father’s trucking company in Clinton. His passion for trucks and cars grew — he’s the proud...
At age 60, ECU student Karen Knight believes it’s never too late
Karen Knight always knew she wanted to further her education after receiving a degree in 1982. Now after nearly 40 years, this grandmother is doing just that. Knight is working...