Crystal Baity Archives

Seated center front, ECU Honors College Dean Marianna Walker prepares to sign an agreement with DSM Dyneema site director Jim Lawless, right, and DSM Dyneema engineering director Scott Quinn, at left. The Greenville fiber manufacturer will fund an EC Scholar award earmarked for an engineering student. Standing left to right, Todd Fraley, director of the EC Scholars Award Program; Deb Mungal, director of DSM’s Human Resources & Training; Ricky Castles, assistant professor of engineering; and Hayden Griffin, professor and chairman of the Department of Engineering. (Photo by Cliff Hollis)
Mar 19, 2015
  • Crystal Baity

CULTIVATING TALENT

High-performance materials manufacturer DSM Dyneema will fund an EC Scholar award to be earmarked for an engineering student beginning the 2016-2017 academic year. DSM Dyneema, which has a Greenville manufacturing...

Mar 11, 2015
  • Crystal Baity

SHELTER ‘STAYCATION’

Thirteen East Carolina University students passed up trips to warmer locales this week for a “staycation” in sleeping bags on the floor of the Greenville Community Shelter. They lived on...

Mar 10, 2015
  • Crystal Baity

AMONG THE BEST

East Carolina University programs in medicine, nursing and rehabilitation counseling have been ranked among the best graduate schools in the nation by U.S. News & World Report. The Brody School...

Mar 09, 2015
  • Crystal Baity

‘SAFETY IS PARAMOUNT’

East Carolina University associate professor Sharon Rogers has spent hours weighing high school football players before and after practice. A certified athletic trainer, Rogers wanted to find a more efficient...

Mar 05, 2015
  • Crystal Baity

DOWN EAST TALENT

Editor’s note: Alana Houston, a 15-year-old from Elizabeth City, won first place and $1,000 for her rendition of “That’s Life,” made famous by Frank Sinatra. Ewan Manalo, a 9-year-old from...

Feb 20, 2015
  • Crystal Baity
  • Kelly Setzer

BOARD DECISION

East Carolina University’s Board of Trustees voted Feb. 20 to transition the name of Charles B. Aycock from a residence hall to a new space where the building’s namesake and...

Visitors can find ECU's Office of the Registrar at a new location in downtown Greenville, at 207 E. 5th Street - in a renovated space just a few blocks from campus. (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Feb 13, 2015
  • Crystal Baity

‘THE FIRST STEP’

East Carolina University’s Office of the Registrar celebrated its re-opening less than a block from campus on Feb. 12. The office relocated from the Whichard Building to a leased 8,062-square-foot...

Feb 10, 2015
  • Crystal Baity

‘BEST OF THE COLLECTION’

For the first time ever, most of East Carolina University’s extensive African art collection is being exhibited simultaneously at six different sites during February. With close to 600 pieces, ECU...

East Carolina University student dancers prepare for their performance during a dress rehearsal for Dance 2015, which opens at ECU Jan. 29. More than 100 students and at least a dozen faculty members have pooled their talents in dance, choreography, production and design to present the annual show. (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Jan 29, 2015
  • Crystal Baity

VARIETY ON STAGE

East Carolina University sophomore Katherine Corbett may be best known for her ballet and tap skills, but she also can sew. Corbett has been helping make tutus for Dance 2015,...

Ashley Williams, project librarian at ECU's Joyner Library, displays some of the materials being catalogued from hundreds of outdoor theaters for an online inventory. (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Jan 22, 2015
  • Crystal Baity

UNDER THE OPEN SKY

East Carolina University archivists are in the middle of a yearlong project to catalogue everything from film reels to financial statements from more than 600 outdoor theaters across the nation....