Crystal Baity Archives

Sep 29, 2016
  • Crystal Baity

JOURNALISTIC ICON

Two days after the first debate between U.S. presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, journalist Bob Woodward asked an East Carolina University audience who would get their vote. Woodward...

Sep 26, 2016
  • Crystal Baity

BEST VALUE

ECU is ranked 99th out of almost 1,200 universities in Educate to Career’s 2017 College Rankings Index. The California nonprofit analyzed labor market outcomes of graduates from accredited four-year colleges...

Sep 13, 2016
  • Crystal Baity

NATIONAL STATURE

East Carolina University ranks in the top tier of national universities in a new listing by U.S. News & World Report. In the magazine’s 2017 “Best Colleges” guide released online...

Sep 12, 2016
  • Crystal Baity

INNOVATIVE PARTNERSHIP

East Carolina University faculty members and local responders want to ultimately reduce the number of deaths from domestic violence through a new $598,000 grant-funded research project. Dr. Heidi Bonner, principal...

Sep 01, 2016
  • Crystal Baity

PREPARATION AND SUPPORT

An analysis shows that East Carolina University's College of Education produced an economic impact valued at almost $46 million in eastern North Carolina during the 2015-2016 academic year. The dollar...

First-generation student Tierra Perry helps at Garrett Hall. She's enrolled in the Anchors Living-Learning Community, designed to help students who are the first in their families to attend college. (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Aug 17, 2016
  • Crystal Baity
  • Jules Norwood

MOVING IN

By 9 a.m. on Aug. 17, cars, trucks and SUVs lined the curb along Faculty Way as the first wave of students arrived to move into residence halls at East...

Melissa Dowland, coordinator of teacher education at the N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences, shows teachers an abandoned mud dauber nest found outside Eastern Elementary School in Greenville. (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Aug 12, 2016
  • Crystal Baity

‘INTERESTED AND MOTIVATED’

Chasing June bugs, examining abandoned mud dauber nests and collecting tree droppings highlighted the first few hours of a weeklong East Carolina University summer institute for elementary school science teachers....

Aug 01, 2016
  • Crystal Baity

Alumnus headed to Rio as U.S. track coach

Curtis Frye ’74 has had little downtime since being named an assistant coach for the U.S. Olympic men’s track team. In his 20th year as head coach at the University...

Jul 28, 2016
  • Crystal Baity
  • Kathy Muse

WORKING TO LEARN

Some East Carolina University students are turning summer vacation into a vocation at internships across the United States and beyond. From teaching to public health, from weaving to writing, students...

Jul 26, 2016
  • Crystal Baity

Licensed to heal

"Family medicine" has more than one meaning for Tanya Darrow '07. She and her husband, Mark, start each morning before daybreak with physical therapy treatments for their 6-year-old son, Gavin,...