PUSHING BOUNDARIES
When opportunity knocked, Emma O’Brien was ready to answer. “When I first came into school, I was so pigeon-holed into what I thought I wanted to do. When I thought...
Study Abroad Archives
Doctor of Public Health student awarded international fellowship
The National Security Education Program (NSEP) recently awarded Keziah Illidge a David L. Boren Fellowship to study in Ghana, West Africa. Illidge, a student in ECU’s Doctor of Public Health...
JOURNEYS CUT SHORT
People around the world, and close to home, have had their lives upended by the COVID-19 pandemic. Many East Carolina University students studying abroad dealt firsthand with the emerging crisis...
College of Education shares expertise, opportunities internationally
It started with a student exchange program and led to an email from the prime minister of the Czech Republic. When Dr. Tosha Owens was in high school, an exchange...
TRANSFORMATIONAL TRAVEL
Hundreds of people braved snowy weather Thursday night to hear expert Rick Steves’ talk about a lifetime of travel — about 120 days every year — with a 9-by-22-by-14-inch carry-on...
‘HOMEGROWING TALENT’
East Carolina University celebrated decades of partnerships and a program rebrand at an annual College of Education (COE) advisory board meeting on Dec. 4. Partnership Teach was officially unveiled as...
HEADLINE WORTHY
Elizabeth Johnson, who was admitted to East Carolina University at the age of 16 and turned 18 in March, is one of the youngest students to complete her degree from...
READING BETWEEN LINES
East Carolina University’s School of Communication has welcomed two faculty members from Poland this semester as part of a partnership formed almost a decade ago. Dr. Ewa Rusek and Dr....
SWEDEN/DENMARK
Nine East Carolina University students explored how the lives of individuals, families and communities in Sweden and Denmark are similar and different when compared with those in the U.S. These...
GUATEMALA
by Louisa Appiah, second-year medical student I grew up around poverty, corrupt governments and some civil unrest for the most formative years of my life. As a child, I watched...