Crystal Baity Archives

Medals
May 21, 2019
  • Crystal Baity

Kaylee Warren

Kaylee Warren will follow in her father’s footsteps when she attends East Carolina University this fall. She hadn’t really given serious thought to his alma mater until she toured campus...

Medals
May 21, 2019
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Cassandra Thomason

Cassandra Thomason wants to be a psychiatrist to help people overcome obstacles in their lives. She was drawn to East Carolina University because of its renowned medical programs. But her...

May 04, 2019
  • Crystal Baity
  • Jules Norwood

IN THE SPOTLIGHT

Actor Emily Procter turned the spotlight on more than 5,200 East Carolina University graduates on Friday. The ECU alumna and North Carolina native encouraged the students to persevere through challenges...

Dance education major Katie White is a fourth generation Pirate who has a long line of mentors and influencers supporting her journey to ECU.
May 02, 2019
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Graduate profile: Katie White

Katie White — a fourth generation East Carolina University graduate — has been coming to campus her entire life. When it came time to choose a school, ECU felt like...

May 02, 2019
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Graduate profile: Michael Denning Jr.

Michael Denning Jr. halfway jokes that he has two goals when he moves north this summer: lose his Southern accent and drop some pounds. On May 3, Denning – an...

Associate Professor Charles Gustina’s interior design students work on the Christenbury Gym project in the design lab in Rivers Building.
Apr 18, 2019
  • Crystal Baity

RETOOLING CHRISTENBURY GYM

An interior design class at East Carolina University has been working this semester on a project close to home: Christenbury Memorial Gym The students have created conceptual designs for potential...

Apr 16, 2019
  • Crystal Baity

RECOGNIZING EXCELLENT TEACHERS

East Carolina University honored its outstanding teachers, mentors and researchers during the annual University Teaching Awards ceremony on April 8. “At the heart of every great university is a great...

Donterreo Culp, an ECU senior majoring in dance performance, works with high school students in Messick Theatre.
Mar 14, 2019
  • Crystal Baity

FULL ACCESS

A day created especially for theater arts and dance drew about 130 students from across Pitt County to East Carolina University on March 8. ECU faculty, staff, students and alumni...

Students pick up trash along Old River Road northwest of Greenville. (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Mar 06, 2019
  • Crystal Baity

SERVING OTHERS

Service-minded students from East Carolina University spent part of their spring break on a blustery, overcast Monday cleaning up Old River Road north of the Tar River. Students picked up...

Jan 17, 2019
  • Crystal Baity

JUST MOVE

Some exercise – even in small doses – is better than nothing at all, say East Carolina University researchers and updated guidelines for physical activity from the U.S. Department of...