Crystal Baity Archives

Sep 22, 2015
  • Crystal Baity

DRAWING TOGETHER

A colorfully painted cinderblock wall near campus helps illustrate an ongoing partnership between East Carolina University and its neighbors.The initiative, called Art + Community, brings ECU and the surrounding neighborhood...

Kathryn Cobb, administrative support associate in ECU admissions, interacts with a fellow workshop participant at the ECU Speech Communication Center, which helps individuals enhance their speaking and presentation skills. (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Sep 01, 2015
  • Crystal Baity

GAINING CONFIDENCE

The only thing some people dread more than public speaking is death. That’s according to Dr. Pamela Hopkins, director of East Carolina University’s Speech Communication Center, where students, faculty, staff...

Aug 24, 2015
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STUDENT SUCCESS

East Carolina University is ranked No.1 in Washington Monthly magazine’s list of “Best Bang for the Buck Colleges in the Southeast” released Aug. 24. The rankings are based on the...

Incoming East Carolina University students and their families pushed carts and lugged boxes across campus Aug. 19 on the first day of residence hall move-in for the fall semester. (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Aug 19, 2015
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‘LUCKY TO BE HERE’

The first new residence hall to open in about 10 years at East Carolina University welcomed students pushing hand carts and lugging plastic storage bins on Wednesday morning. Hundreds of...

ECU engineering students Hanadee Abu-Zayed, Nicholas Garcia and Carrie Robinson, left to right, conduct experiments using the wind tunnel on campus. (Photos by Jay Clark)
Aug 11, 2015
  • Crystal Baity

AERODYNAMICS LIVE

Seeing the impact of air and speed on objects beats reading a description in a textbook, according to East Carolina University engineering students. The principles of aerodynamics come to life...

Campers at East Carolina University's STEM to STEAM camp enjoy hands-on activities that help them learn concepts in art, science, technology, engineering and math. (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Jul 29, 2015
  • Crystal Baity

WHOLE-BRAIN ACTIVITIES

Sixty-two campers in kindergarten through 10th grade are taking part in the East Carolina University School of Art and Design’s STEM to STEAM Summer Camp held July 27-31. Throughout the...

ECU Board of Trustees members Danny Scott, left, and Edwin Clark listen to discussion during the July 17 board meeting. At that meeting, ECU Provost Ron Mitchelson presented the plan for reorganization for ECU's College of Human Ecology. (Photo by Cliff Hollis)
Jul 20, 2015
  • Crystal Baity
  • Jay Clark

REORGANIZATION

The six departments and schools that comprise East Carolina University’s College of Human Ecology will soon migrate to other colleges under a reorganization plan intended to reduce costs and strengthen...

Jul 20, 2015
  • Crystal Baity

LIGHTING A FIRE

Eleven-year-old Ross Pennington came to East Carolina University with no experience but was playing the guitar by the end of his first class at the annual summer Guitar Festival and...

Jul 09, 2015
  • Crystal Baity

ARCHIVAL MECCA

Items in the Smithsonian collection include: — Biographical Material, 1920-2014, around 14 folders (awards, family papers, and miscellaneous items like pins, an NPR interview, and Bob’s high school graduation program)...

Left to right, Shelley Tripp, a teacher at Bethel School, keys in information for a robot she built with rising seventh-graders Daeshawn Smith and Alyssa Mayo during the inaugural Advanced Manufacturing and Innovation Academy held at ECU. The entrepreneurship, science, technology, engineering, art and design and math or eSTEAM academy was funded by a $1.25 million Golden LEAF Foundation grant. (Photo by Cliff Hollis)
Jul 02, 2015
  • Crystal Baity

INNOVATORS IN ACTION

Rising seventh-grader Alyssa Mayo had never built a robot much less programmed one to move, turn and scoop up a ping pong ball. But she and 40 other middle school...