BETTER BOATING THROUGH DATA
A new smartphone app called SOBOS — Self-reported On-water Boat Operator Survey — is aimed at changing the face of boating safety by putting data collection in the hands of...
Jules Norwood Archives
OZONE EXPOSURE
Ground-level air pollution can cause a variety of health problems, and East Carolina University’s Dr. Kym Gowdy is taking a closer look at how and why. Her work, for which...
TICK SEASON
Researchers at East Carolina University, with funding from the National Institutes of Health, have declared open season on the bacteria that cause Lyme disease. While rarely fatal, Lyme disease can...
BREAKING BARRIERS
East Carolina University and 14 community colleges in the surrounding region have signed a co-admission agreement designed to improve transfer student access and success through a collaborative degree completion program....
Sophia Villani
Coming from a close-knit family of six in the nearby community of Winterville, Sophia Villani sees East Carolina University as an opportunity to be part of another kind of family....
Luke Fogarty
Luke Fogarty grew up in Greenville and is focused on finding ways to contribute to the betterment of the region he calls home. “I chose East Carolina University because I...
THE BUSINESS OF SUCCESS
Fireworks flew and tassels turned on a beautiful spring night in Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium as 5,479 students graduated from East Carolina University on May 4. The fireworks capped off a new...
SCIENCE AND PIRATES
FIRE! The blast of a cannon ripped through the air to the delight of onlookers outside the Queen Anne’s Revenge Conservation Laboratory at East Carolina University during the fourth annual...
INNOVATIVE APPROACH
During its meeting today in Wilmington, the UNC Board of Governors approved the establishment of the Innovation Early College High School, a collaboration between East Carolina University and Pitt County...
POWER UP
As of the first week of January, dozens of high school students knew they’d be working together to build robots to compete in a global competition, but they didn’t know...