Crystal Baity Archives

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,...

Jun 27, 2016
  • Crystal Baity

MAIDEN VOYAGE

It was a shorter paddle than expected but still a success for East Carolina University boatbuilding student Grace Joyner and her classmates. After five weeks of painstaking work, Joyner's final...

Jun 01, 2016
  • Crystal Baity

WHERE THERE’S SMOKE

An East Carolina University researcher and colleagues at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have found broad support for raising the minimum age for tobacco sales in North...

May 31, 2016
  • Crystal Baity
  • Jackie Drake

‘GREAT BENEFIT’

A new training course and flight simulator used by U.S. Army and Air Force cadets at East Carolina University is helping develop the nation's future military leaders. Unique among schools...