ECU Report

ECU students Hannah Watters and Jaden Geniesse perform during a dress rehearsal for the comedy The Play that Goes Wrong, which was presented April 17-21 at McGinnis Theatre.

Catherine Colonna, left, and Mary Quaile show off their match letters during the Brody School of Medicine’s National Residency Match Day event March 15 at the Main Campus Student Center. Quaile is headed to Mountain AHEC in Asheville for a residency in psychiatry, while Colonna is going to the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston for internal medicine. Of the 79 students in the Class of 2024, 42 are staying in North Carolina for residency – 14 at ECU Health Medical Center. Forty-five are entering a primary care residency: family medicine, internal medicine, internal medicine/pediatrics, pediatrics and OB/GYN.

Matt Thomas ’97 of Parmalee sings as bandmate Barry McSwain plays bass during the group’s performance at Barefoot on the Mall on April 23. The band has scored three No. 1 country hits since their days playing local parties and downtown clubs. Since 1979, Barefoot’s been an end-of-the-semester staple at ECU.

ECU first baseman Carter Cunningham bats during the second inning of the Pirates’ June 2 game against Evansville. Cunningham, the 2024 AAC player of the year, started a foundation in January called Homers that Help. He recruited sponsors who donated $300 for each of 33 home games plus $100 for each ECU home run in those games. By the end of May, Homers that Help had raised more than $28,000. The money supports families who have children at the James and Connie Maynard Children’s Hospital, part of ECU Health in Greenville. Players also visit patients at the hospital every couple of weeks. Cunningham, who completed his MBA this summer, hit .371 with 14 home runs and 60 RBIs this season and made a donation himself for each of his homers.

ECU senior Garrett Leigh was among the many students who gathered to watch the solar eclipse April 8 on the Howell Science Complex breezeway. The Astronomy Club hosted the event, providing eclipse glasses and filtered telescopes. In Greenville, the moon covered about 80% of the sun.