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At the Middle School Innovators Academy graduation ceremony at ECU June 23, creative young thinkers showed their new product concepts. The Pitt County middle schoolers developed the concepts during a two-week program using facilities at ECU's Innovation Design Lab. (Slideshow photos by Cliff Hollis)
Jun 23, 2011
  • Joy Holster

‘Up by the bootstraps’: developing creative young minds at ECU’s Innovators Academy

Building a shiny new factory in a small, quiet community: that’s how most people envision economic development, said Wayne Godwin, director of East Carolina University’s Innovation Design Lab. But that’s...

ECU elementary education graduate students who initiated the flat mascot exchange with Rollins College are, left to right, Beth Laughridge, Laura Wetherington, Sylvia Dieu and Stephanie Burress. (Photo by Kendra Alexander)
Jun 21, 2011
  • Joy Holster

ECU students blend technology, cardboard to engage learners

He’s flat. He’s purple. And he’s still somewhat sandy, but a cardboard pirate is all set to engage elementary school students with tales of his summer adventures. He’s “Flat Pee...

Jun 14, 2011
  • Rachel Castro

ECU 101: Orientation to the Pirate nation

Call it the formal hello — the time each year when the newest Pirates take a measure of their first home away from home and sample what life is like...

Allison Hope, an instructional technology consultant with ECU's College of Nursing, finds time outside of the busy workday to volunteer with scouting and the Rocking Horse Ranch. (Contributed photo)
Jun 10, 2011
  • Judy Currin

Hope balances work, personal life through service to others

Allison Hope can rattle off the Boy Scouts of America’s oath, law, motto and slogan in her sleep. She’s had lots of practice. Hope felt compelled to participate when her...

David Siegel
Jun 08, 2011
  • Rachel Castro

FULBRIGHT AWARD

A professor at East Carolina University will visit South Africa this summer as a Fulbright specialist to lecture on access and inclusion. David Siegel, associate professor of higher, adult and...

ECU Provost Marilyn Sheerer addresses members of media during a press conference held May 19 to announce ECU's acceptance of NCAA penalties for self-reported academic fraud violations. She said ECU responded quickly and took decisive action as soon as the violations became apparent. (Photo by Cliff Hollis)
May 19, 2011
  • Mary Schulken

ECU accepts NCAA penalties for self-reported violations

East Carolina University announced today it has accepted athletic program penalties imposed by the NCAA for self-reported academic fraud violations in 2010, including a reprimand and one year of probation....

ECU communication professor John Howard accepted the 2011 Board of Governors' Award for Excellence in Teaching during the annual fall commencement, May 6. (Photo by Cliff Hollis)
May 13, 2011
  • Mary Schulken

EXCELLENT TEACHING: A conversation with John Howard

Unless students discover things about themselves in a college classroom, teaching hasn’t taken place, says John Howard III, associate professor of communication at East Carolina University. “Getting people to ask...

May 10, 2011
  • Mary Schulken

ECU NOW? Get to know it, and other ECU news changes

Question: Where do you go at ECU for up-to-the-minute information about accomplishments, awards, publications, research grants, etc. for faculty and staff? Answer: ECU Now, found at http://blog.ecu.edu/sites/poeight/. It’s a new...

May 05, 2011
  • Mary Schulken

FIRST GRADUATE: ‘Long journey’ ends for Smith, his family

When Tremayne Smith arrived at East Carolina University in 2006, he brought with him a challenge. No one on either side of his immediate family had a college degree. None...

Apr 27, 2011
  • Mary Schulken

Dedication

‘You have helped us honor him’ Capt. James R. Tant, U.S. Air Force, ECU class of ’65, knew at age 9 he wanted to be a pilot. “He got his...