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Unemployment rates in North Carolina hit 7.6% in June – almost double the rate from a year ago. If you’re one of those seeking a job, East Carolina University’s Online...
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PIRATE READ
With a global pandemic and racial discord across the country – not to mention a presidential campaign under way – “The War for Kindness: Building Empathy in a Fractured World”...
Student: Melany Contreras
East Carolina University senior Melany Contreras has wanted to be a scientist as long as she can remember. She just couldn’t decide which field. So she chose two. “Those were...
Anjalee Hou
A big part of A big part of Anjalee Hou’s life has been working at her parents’ restaurant, China 10. It’s now on Fire Tower Road but used to be...
BARRIERS TO PARTICIPATION
Sports Illustrated has called Greenville a “Sportstown USA,” and while opportunities abound for youth and adults to play and learn, those doors aren’t equally open to everyone. That’s what East...
ADDING VALUE TO AGRICULTURE
Ride by an eastern North Carolina farm, and you’ll see tobacco, corn, cotton, soybeans, maybe sorghum or wheat, and often some livestock. Janire Pascual-Gonzalez sees new sources of revenue for...
CONQUERING DISEASE
Byron Aguilar is studying how a group of signaling proteins called Rho GTPases, which play a role in several common cellular functions, might affect the development of not only cancer...
ARTIST, TEACHER, PIRATE
Years ago, Sneads Ferry artist Sherry Thurston ’70 drew a pair of white rubber boots – the kind local shrimpers and anglers wear – called the drawing “Sneads Ferry Sneakers”...
THE SEASON FOR SAVING
Here’s bad news for college students: A Princeton University study says financial stress can make you less smart. “When human beings see scarcity, they go into survival mode,” said Dean...
A HAND UP
When you see Nicholas Hill’s experimental prosthetic hand for the first time, it’s just too easy to crack a joke about the upcoming “Terminator: Dark Fate.” It looks that much...