ECU students avoid chickens, place second at game design competition
The chickens are angry. Farmers take their eggs and coop them up all day. They’re tired of it, and now they’re on the attack. You as a farmer have but...
Ken Buday Archives
THE THIRD DEGREE
Adam Alston is on a quest for knowledge. That quest led him to East Carolina University where he decided he would obtain not one, and not even two, but three...
Faculty: Dr. Mark Moss
Growing up in Stevens Point, Wisconsin, Dr. Mark Moss listened to the advice of his parents, who told him of the importance of education to his future. The associate professor...
INSPIRING SUCCESS
When Jessie Drymon was an East Carolina University student, she tutored and learned at the Pirate Academic Success Center. Now that she is a registered nurse caring for organ transplant...
ECU engineering student receives NSF research fellowship
East Carolina University engineering student Shea Middleton has been awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. The oldest graduate fellowship of its kind, the NSF GRFP provides a three-year...
Faculty: Dr. Aundrea Oliver
East Carolina University’s Dr. Aundrea Oliver began diagnosing people at an early age — in high school. One day she noticed that her physics teacher appeared hot and was sweating,...
ECU student wins Palo Alto national cybersecurity competition
When East Carolina University senior Harrison Thaxton decided to enter the Palo Alto Networks national cybersecurity competition, he received some advice from last year’s winner — 2020 ECU graduate Alex...
ECU alumnus makes his mark on Mars
In a manner of speaking, purple and gold are visiting the red planet. Jackson Tucker, an East Carolina University alumnus, had a hand in designing some of the components NASA’s...
ECU professor’s research could impact the future of bridge construction
An associate professor in East Carolina University’s Department of Construction Management is part of two research projects that could shape the way bridges are constructed in North Carolina. Dr. Amin...
ALL ABOARD
Jackson Faircloth looked at stacks of shirts in the Dowdy Student Store in the East Carolina University Main Campus Student Center. You could say purple and gold run through his...