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Apr 27, 2015
  • Grace Haskin

SMART FINANCES

A personal finance class at East Carolina University has inspired students to save a combined $100,000 each semester for the past five years. The ECU College of Business instructors Len...

Chancellor Steve Ballard, right, recognizes outgoing board chairman Robert Brinkley during the April 24 meeting of the ECU Board of Trustees. Brinkley served on the board for eight years. (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Apr 24, 2015
  • Crystal Baity
  • Kelly Setzer

MOVING FORWARD

East Carolina University leaders say work is continuing on the development of Heritage Hall, a permanent place where people of historical significance to the university will be recognized. ECU’s Board...

At the first Medical Education Day at ECU, Dr. Elizabeth Baxley, senior associate dean for academic affairs at the Brody School of Medicine, left, speaks with keynote speaker Dr. Rajesh Mangrulkar, associate dean for medical school education at the University of Michigan. ECU and the University of Michigan are among 11 schools selected nationwide to reshape medical education. (Photos by Gretchen Baugh)
Apr 24, 2015
  • Amy Adams Ellis

LEARNING AND LEADING

Innovations in medical education were showcased and shared April 22 as health sciences faculty and learners from across East Carolina University gathered at the East Carolina Heart Institute at ECU...

Nursing professor Dr. Pamela Reis, left, and nurse-midwifery student Farrah Forney review information about a virtual patient online. The virtual patient is being used in a plan of treatment that includes faculty and students from multiple disciplines at ECU. (Photos courtesy of Pamela Reis)
Apr 21, 2015
  • Amy Adams Ellis

TEACHING TEAMWORK

Students and residents representing three of East Carolina University’s health sciences programs recently participated in the university’s first interprofessional virtual patient case. Between April 6 and 10, a dozen nurse-midwifery...

Apr 16, 2015
  • Kelly Setzer

OPEN DIALOGUE

As the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to hear legal arguments on marriage rights later this month, experts from East Carolina University hosted a panel discussion to explore the issue April...

Dr. Janice Lewis (Photo by Cliff Hollis)
Apr 15, 2015
  • Kelly Setzer

COMMITTED TO EXCELLENCE

Dr. Janice Lewis has been named director of the J.Y. Joyner Library at East Carolina University. Lewis has been interim dean of academic library services at ECU since August 2012....

Apr 14, 2015
  • Kathryn Kennedy

WORLD-CLASS WOMEN

Ten inspiring women were honored April 13 in a ceremony at the Murphy Center that celebrated the impacts women have – large and small – on East Carolina University and...

ECU nutrition major Tori Chapman shared her undergraduate research experiences April 9 during the UNC Board of Governors Committee on Educational Planning, Policies and Programs. (Photo by Cliff Hollis)
Apr 10, 2015
  • Steve Tuttle

MEETING ON CAMPUS

96 percent of Pirate Nurses pass 2014 exam ECU’s College of Nursing saw 96 percent of its bachelor of science graduates pass the national licensing exam in 2014, according to...

ECU professor Dr. MD Motaleb, pictured above, was awarded $423,000 to investigate disease mechanisms related to bacteria that transmit Lyme disease from infected deer ticks. (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Apr 08, 2015
  • Amy Adams Ellis

‘DEBILITATING DISORDER’

A researcher in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine has received a grant from the National Institutes of Health to study the...

Mar 31, 2015
  • Kelly Setzer

SHARED GOVERNANCE

While the world looks quite different than it did in March 1965 during their first official meeting, East Carolina University’s Faculty Senate still convenes to guide university policy exactly as...